Word: swamp
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Like Farkes and Salsgiver, Mann stayed close to Cambridge over the summer, playing for the Keene Swamp Bats of the New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL). Two summers ago, reigning Ivy Pitcher of the Year Trey Hendricks ’03, first emerged as a major hitting prospect while playing for the Swamp Bats, and now the soon-to-be senior Mann is attempting the same thing...
...radical move to the middle, a campaign that looks and sounds different from the usual partisan claptrap--one that features more ideas like Kerry's proposed reduction in the corporate tax in return for corporate-loophole closing--may be John Kerry's only chance to transcend the swamp gas that is threatening to engulf this long, long political year...
Dominick (Sonny Black) Napolitano. Disappeared in August '81. The government says he was whacked as payback for unwittingly letting Pistone infiltrate the family. A year later, a decomposed corpse was found in a Staten Island swamp with a bullet wound to the head. Investigators say Massino approved the hit. David Breitbart, Massino's lawyer, says it's not Napolitano and will demand, "Habeas corpus...
...part of its charm. Since then the beavers have been busy damming everything that flows. Now two of Patrick's four acres--farmland for three centuries--are underwater, and towering pines next to the house have begun crashing to earth. "The beavers are turning our whole yard into a swamp," fumes Patrick, 52. "They're not smart. They're obsessive-compulsive. They hear water, and they have...
...humans aren't aquatic. Most of us, in fact, wish the world were dryer, not wetter, and flooding tops the list of human grievances against the beaver. By raising water levels, its unkempt but admirably watertight dams can flood basements, swamp sewer systems, spoil trout streams and even derail trains...