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...Mitch Williams vs. the Strike Zone ( The Wild Thing's eccentric fast ball had helped the Philadelphia Phillies beat the superior Atlanta Braves in the play-offs, but in the World Series against Toronto, he lost all sense of navigation and blew two crucial games. The closer has closed in Philly: he was abruptly traded to Houston...
...appellations, petite champagnes and grande champagnes, with their gravelly, chalky soils, are credited with producing the best grapes for Cognac. Once the wine is distilled into spirits, it is aged in oak casks, sometimes for many decades. The blending of various spirits, old and young, gives Cognac its superior edge...
...also battled Harvard in court, when he took up the cause of a fellow security guard, Viatcheslav Abramian. Abramian complained he was discriminated against as a result of his Russian background. His complaints were dismissed in an internal investigation. In 1997, McCombe testified in the case, in which a Superior Court jury subsequently awarded Abramian $2.9 million. McCombe served as one of the last guards to be a direct employee of the University. In 2004, the University centralized its security systems under Allied Security, a move McCombe criticized, saying it exposed the campus to danger by entrusting its security...
...Medical School (HMS) professors are questioning a colleague’s court testimony that there is no link between the short-term use of the popular painkiller Vioxx and severe heart problems.HMS Associate Professor of Medicine J. Michael Gaziano’s testimony this week in the New Jersey Superior Court broke from the published work of two of his colleagues, Assistant Professor of Medicine Daniel H. Solomon and Professor of Medicine Jerome L. Avorn.Avorn said that he could find no explanation for Gaziano’s ideas, as expressed in court. “You’d have...
...certainly not the pony that I galloped around my bedroom mountains.When the ’80s toy revolution began a year or two ago, I was elated. Finally, proof that it wasn’t only my own Peter-Pan-complexed self that believed these playthings were far superior to the more technologically advanced but ultimately soulless products of today. Certainly this decision was probably, in part, based on the fact that the ’80s children are just starting to poke their heads into the worlds of parenting and marketing-executive-decision-making. And if fashions come back...