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Just as in other sports, those with speed and quick reflexes prevail. Stunning your attacker is a fine art of dodging a shot and firing in reponse—a ballet of lightening quick reactions, if you will...
...Colonel Hodges constantly reminded his staff that the key to success was flexibility. After the bulk of the fighting was over he said, "I knew from Day 1 that there would be changes, but I may not have been prepared for the speed, number and breadth of them. The Commanding General was always telling me to keep my forces postured for any change that might occur." Hodges says his driving goal had been to always have some combat power not fully committed, kept available for anything the Commanding General asked. "It was my duty to give him flexibility," he says...
Every once in a while, as they did yesterday afternoon, those in attendance fit the latter category. Armed with JUGS radar guns, they’re much less concerned with the view of a very sluggish doubleheader than they are with the speed of the ball coming off one guy’s hand—in this case, the right hand of Cornell junior Chris Schutt, a genuine prospect with a vicious slider that kept Harvard hitless for the better part of the second game...
...When you’re not spotting your fastball, you can’t set up your off-speed stuff as well,” he said...
...Camp Harvard” needs to end, a fact they won’t admit, lest they be bombarded with student outcry on how important extracurricular activities are to student life. On the record, they sing the praises of the high quality of student activities like canaries on speed. But their Secret Agenda implies otherwise, as does their elimination of the dean in charge of student life. They’re not talking, and silence begs suspicion...