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...Brad Zapenas, opened the frame with the first hit of the day against Ferreira, a single through the left side of the infield. Although a failed pickoff attempt moved Zapenas to second, it seemed that the damage would be limited when BC head coach Mik Aoki opted to play small-ball and sacrifice the runner to third. With a 1-2 count, Ferreira threw consecutive pitches that appeared to cross the plate, according to Walsh. The umpire ruled both balls, and second baseman Matt Hamlet laced the next pitch down the left-field line for a double, just past...
Associates-level donors represent a small percentage of the total number of donors. Maccoby estimated that of the roughly 1,100 students who donated last year, approximately 60 gave Associates-level gifts. Moreover, while most of the money raised for most alumni classes comes from Associates’ gifts, Associates’ donations constitute a smaller proportion of the total Senior Gift...
...It’s really hard to build small talk if you don’t have the cultural base to know what’s going on,” Pollock says...
...democracy, and advocating a state based on Islamic law, the Brotherhood is far more popular than any of the small liberal opposition groups that joined together in 2005 under the banner of Kifaya or those who supported the presidential campaign of Ayman Nour, who came in second to Mubarak in the country's first multicandidate presidential race. (Read "Will ElBaradei Run for President of Egypt...
...Yushu from the provincial capital, Xining, which is itself about a 1,000-mile drive from the national capital of Beijing. As you climb south and west across the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, urban sprawl cedes to empty steppe. Just north of Tibet, the road opens into a small town tucked in a river valley. Its main street is lined with vendors selling yak butter and tea; its low, brown hills are lined with rows of brightly colored courtyard homes. Those homes - and the town - now lie in ruin...