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...another string of empty days, fast and slow. Reading, mending things no one needed, washing walls, sometimes necessary and sometimes not, fussing with the flowers. In the evening, pacing about the balcony, I read poetry aloud to keep from forgetting how to speak...
...relics of a religion -- innocence -- that all in attendance want desperately to believe in. When the band launches into a moony ballad, folks in their 40s hit the floor to dance slow and close. And as a Mylar balloon sails toward the rafters, one aging yuppie reaches for the string, but it eludes his grasp. The reflexes of youth are gone, but the impulse is as strong as ever...
Witt, meanwhile, flirted with the first no-hitter in playoff history, holding the Red Sox hitless for 5-2/3 innings before Wade Boggs beat out an infield chopper to third for a single. The hit broke a string of 16 straight batters retired by Witt after walkingBoggs, the major league batting champion, leadingoff the first...
Witt walked Owen with two outs in the sixth,snapping his string of 16 consecutive battersretired. Boggs followed with his high chopper toDeCinces, who fielded it while charging from thirdbut had no play...
Second, the string of denials appears to be at odds with the "strengthened internal promotion system" for junior faculty who show excellence in research and teaching recommended in a milestone report made last April by Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences A. Michael Spence. Even as Spence pleas for more time to implement his recommendations, those very junior faculty are--to put it mildly--slipping through his fingers...