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...Welch] has a heavy shot, he sees the ice really well and he plays with an edge,” said Penguins scout Neil Shea. “He’s got a hell of a future ahead...
Quitman, texas (pop. 2,000), is not listed in tourism brochures as the hip music capital of the Lone Star State. But it's doing its part. The tiny town is the home base of Shea Seger, the 21-year-old singer-songwriter behind one of this year's smartest debuts, The May Street Project (RCA). "Growing up, I hated the smallness of the town," says Seger, who was born in Fort Worth but moved to Quitman when she was four years old. "Now I respect it for its simplicity." Seger has also lived in a number of other places...
...scene. It was sometimes a florid stage, as when Ellis told of seeing a burly comrade reading Emily Dickinson and weeping on the battlefield. "There is a classroom persona you have as a teacher that's not quite you," says Mount Holyoke's dean of faculty, Donal O'Shea. "There's an element of great teaching that's theater. And Professor Ellis was expert at that." Fellow baby boomers speculate that Ellis gave in to a generational tendency to exaggerate one's part in the great events of the 1960s...
...Mount Holyoke will too. As part of a formal investigation, students who took Ellis' Vietnam course will be contacted to determine the severity of the lies. Some colleagues suspect that Ellis will resign before the investigation is complete. "He's devastated by this," says O'Shea. Academics, and historians in particular, traditionally think of truth as their gospel and the classroom as their church. "Knowingly being dishonest in class is just as great an act of moral turpitude as being knowingly dishonest or inaccurate in your written work," says David Garrow, a Pulitzer prizewinning historian at Emory University...
...Even I, a lowly Mets fan from New Jersey, have always observed opening day with reverence, but the temple was not Shea Stadium, but Albion Park in Clifton, N.J. Baseball season was not baseball season and springtime had not yet sprung unless I, too, was on the ballfield...