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...glitziest spot in the game belongs to that much-maligned anomaly of the American League, the Designated Hitter. David Ortiz, Jason Giambi, Gary Sheffield, Sammy Sosa - the profusion of star power is terrifying news for baseball purists, who for years have griped that the DH rule, which was instituted in 1973 to spark sagging American League offenses, takes much of the strategy out of the national pastime. The usual complaint has been that with the DH, managers didn't have to pick pinch hitters, or pull off slick double switches. For years it was the home of all-or-nothing...
...hope that it’s a spark for more discussion. We want The Salient to have fun with this; we want people to be putting out their own responses to this.” The Salient is Harvard’s right-leaning weekly. John M. Sheffield ’09, vice-president of the Harvard Libertarian Forum who has explored the Disorientation Guide’s website, said that he is frustrated because it “claims to speak for me and my economic class.” “I come from a single?...
Willie Williams never intended to change the way people watch rock concerts. Growing up in the late '70s, all he really wanted was to get out of Sheffield, England. "So I ran away to London to join the circus," says Williams, "and the circus at that time was punk rock." Punk rock had a visual aesthetic, but it started and ended with the pierceable parts of its players' bodies. At 19, Williams, whose love of music trumped his aptitude for it, cozied up to his favorite band, Stiff Little Fingers, and talked the group into letting him design its stage...
...adult, said Ross E. Corson, spokesman for the Hennepin County attorney. ‘HE COULD HAVE DONE ANYTHING’ From his roots on the reservation, Meat traveled a long way, leaving the local public system to graduate with the top award from the Berkshire School in Sheffield, Mass. He told friends he wanted to return to Leech Lake to aid in economic development after—he hoped—graduating this coming fall. Lussier’s family, also from Minnesota, was friends with Meat’s family. “Where we come from...
...gave a sort of impish grin,” Georgi said in an interview. “And he had that when I saw him a few weeks ago. It was good to see the old Duane.” Meat graduated in 2001 from the Berkshire School in Sheffield, Mass. According to the school’s newspaper, the Green and Gray, “Meat has constantly been a high achiever.” In middle school in Minnesota, “he taught himself pre-algebra, as there were no teachers qualified to conduct the course themselves...