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...longtime and loyal baseball fan that I write you to express my anger at the recent caption above a photograph of Ted Williams and Wade Boggs. The caption read "Hit 'em where they ain't." This phrase is attributable to Pee Wee Reese, a slap-hitting shortstop for the Brooklyn Dodgers in the '40s and '50s, and has absolutely no relevance to Ted Williams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reese, Not Ted Williams, Gave Famous Hitting Advice | 4/3/1998 | See Source »

...night was brought to a climax with the presentation of the Samoan slap dance. Scantily clad MIT engineering students with oiled up bodies slapped themselves in an impressive performance. Samoan slap dancing creates the syncopated rhythm of tap dancing but with the use of one's hands and body instead of one's feet and the floor. It also has the energy and power of stepping. When asked if it was painful to do, Eric Beven, one of the Samoan slap dancers, replied, "Well, I got some bruises. You get so energized doing it. It feels great when...

Author: By Breeze K. Giannasio, | Title: A FIRST-HAND REPORT FROM THE MIT LUAU | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

Kristine Kirkland, 5, squirms onto her mother'slap in the Davis Square DTA office and deliversher most pathetic puppy-dog expression. She wantsan audience for her reading of Cat in the Hat, andshe wants it now. As her mother explains theimportance of day care for single parents, littleKristine plows ahead with her impassionedrendition of the Dr. Seuss classic...

Author: By Joshua L. Kwan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Recipients Adapt to Welfare Reform | 4/1/1998 | See Source »

Push him away 50% Slap him 34% Kiss him back 7% Not sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 30, 1998 | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

Some employers have got more than a slap on the hand. In an important case in California, a jury awarded Ralph Cotran $1.78 million in lost compensation four years ago in a wrongful-termination lawsuit against his former employer, insurance brokerage Rollins Hudig Hall International. The company fired Cotran in 1993 after two secretaries alleged sexual harassment. He denied it and claimed that he and the two women had been involved in consensual relationships. "I didn't do it, but the company ignored every shred of evidence on my side," he says today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: Sex And The Law | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

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