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...just was a tough out. He was a thorn in our side for a couple of years.”After Kantrovitz graduated from Brown, the Cardinals selected their city’s native son in the 25th round of the Major League draft.Playing professionally was just the next step in what Kantrovitz saw as the natural progression of things.“I was just trying to be the starting shortstop on my high school baseball team and then I was trying to be the starting shortstop at Brown,” he says. “You keep...
...Munir. “To deport them seems ludicrous.” According to the official case report, Munir, who is of Indonesian descent, leaked a recording of a speech of then-President of Indonesia Suharto to the Indonesian Embassy in Egypt, in which Suharto expressed a willingness to step down from power. The speech was then published in Kompas, a prominent Indonesian newspaper. Fearful of retaliation, Munir fled to United States in June 1998 and eventually enrolled at Harvard Divinity School. In a letter to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Johansen wrote, “[Munir] was a very...
...seventh.“He’s been one of those guys behind the scenes,” Walsh said of Wortzman. “It’s nice to know that if your catchers get hurt you have a guy who can step in there and play. What I’d like to see—and I know he’s got a big career in medicine planned—I think he’d make a terrific coach.”For all the seniors, it was the end of a tough...
...have taken a step in that direction, but a pandemic is not considered inevitable," said Keiji Fukuda, the WHO's interim director-general for health, safety and environment. "The situation is fluid and continues to evolve." (See pictures of the swine flu in Mexico...
...decision to raise the pandemic alert level to phase 4 cannot be taken lightly. Although the move will not have much effect on the U.S. response, it will obligate countries that have not yet been infected to step up precautions. For poor nations, that undertaking could be expensive, and may divert resources from other health threats. "The [WHO] was mindful of the fact that a phase change would have social and political implications for everyone," said Fukuda. "But we focused on what we knew about the epidemiology...