Word: ruth
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...division, senior captain Cardwell Potts skippered with junior David Darst crew to an 11th-place finish. Sophomore Vince Porter skippered the B division to eighth, with sophomore Ruth Schlitz crew for the first three races, and junior Laura Schubert for the final seven. Johnson sailed single-handed to second place in the C division, and senior Clemmie Everett, also single-handed, finished 13th in D. Overall, Harvard finished in 10th place with 334 points...
...Unfortunately the bleep - intended as a fleeting comic throwaway inspired by the famously blue-talking diva - did not happen.? My KCRW engineer - still employed at the station - forgot.? And this moment became what Ruth Seymour, my station manager, would describe to Reuters as my very own "Janet Jackson performance piece...
...policy of zero-tolerance regarding profanity was for my dismissal, this had not strictly been the station?s practice.? Case in point: A 2002 interview that Seymour did with Dennis Hopper regarding Andy Warhol.? While discussing the work of Helmut Newton, Hopper used the same strong obscenity I did, Ruth laughed, and it ran unbleeped...
...history? Baseball is all history: comparing today's players with yesteryear's is among the great pleasures of the sport. That makes baseball fans more fervent lovers of tradition than Tevye. They can cite, as Scripture, the career home-run totals of Ruth (714) and Hank Aaron (755). And they're not always eager to see records broken. So old-time fans are skeptical of modern-era players, who have had as many 50-homer seasons in the past decade as occurred in the previous century. Bonds, 39, set the all-time season home-run record...
Fans should consider this possibility: some players are great. In 1927, when Ruth became the first player to wallop 60 home runs, only one other major leaguer, Ruth's Yankee teammate Lou Gehrig, hit more than 30. Indeed, the Babe connected more times that year than 11 of the 15 other teams. (And what illegal substance was he on? Prohibition-era booze.) Bonds could be playing at that level. When he walks to the plate, he's not really facing the pitcher on the mound; he's facing down the legends of the game. That quest is motivation enough...