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...status. Recent history is on his side. The grind of the league season, whose back-to-back doubleheader format subjects Ivy pitching staffs to a mean sort of social Darwinism, has a way of making household names out of no-names. Consider the rags-to-riches story of Chaney Sheffield ’02, last year. A former walk-on, Sheffield was tabbed as a last-minute replacement last April amid a starter crunch not dissimilar to this weekend’s. Once he cracked the rotation, he never left, surviving all the way to the title-clinching victory...
Time remaining in a recent soccer match in Sheffield, England when the onset of heavy fog resulted in the cancellation of the game...
...recall that without the U.S. we would not have won World War II. I would like to apologize to America for this collective weakness. Don't call me European. English American suits me far better. Now let's sort out Saddam, with or without our allies. TIM FOSTER Sheffield, England...
...trees and a lemon sky, and its image is repeated in the dank surface water. In his youth, he found that the kind of art contained in books - "drawings of dead Jesus, sliced lemons and bottles of wine" - had "little connection with growing up in a council house." At Sheffield Polytechnic in the late 1980s he found himself creating "as an art student, not a human being" - any kind of personal work had to be approached ironically. "Passion seemed to be discouraged," he says. "Any sort of little hint of interest in your work was immediately theorized, put through...
...displaced by a raucous war for circulation and TV viewers, where skirmishes were fought with tittle-tattle about the Windsors. "The main change of the last 50 years is that the monarchy has become absorbed into, embroiled with, the culture of celebrity," says John Baxendale, a cultural historian at Sheffield Hallam University. The royals could not have remained Victorian icons; they had to find their footing in a media age. But the progress they made was undermined by scandal, especially through the mutual loathing of Charles and Diana. The public snapped it up, ogling the juicy parts while clucking disapprovingly...