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Sport is too often a cruel reminder of life's diminishing returns. Fans watch an aging hitter's creaky swing, or a runner's lethargy on the base paths, or a pitcher's loss of velocity and feel the beer breath of mortality on their own necks. Nolan Ryan, whom sportswriter Thomas Boswell has called "the Act of God," is the wondrous exception to this melancholy rule. The Texas Ranger hurler is 43 years old now, and he has more major league records than candles on his next birthday cake...
...everyone. Creativity resists even the most creative definitions. "Trying to pin down creativity," as a speaker noted recently at one of the Hallmark card company's regular seminars, "is like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall." When the corporate back is to the wall, however, a wild swing can be the best move. "Desperation is a good motive," says David Luther, senior vice president and corporate director of quality at Corning. "Customers came to us and said if we didn't change, they'd go somewhere else...
...baseball season is only six weeks old, but already America's second favorite game is in full swing: guessing which manager will be fired first. Here are the top contenders...
...boggling difficulty of hitting a small round ball hurled at upwards of 95 miles per hour from 60 feet away. Eager to prevent the successful completion of that task are the nine men in the field. Assuming you can even make contact (with a rounded bat no less), a swing only 1/100th of a second too late and the ball sails foul. This, of course, does not even account for the pitcher's guile--changing locations of the pitch or putting a nasty spin on the ball that causes it to dive out of the strike zone at the last...
...Crimson compiled a 4-5 record on its southern swing, including two wins against a Red Sox minor league squad. It was Harvard's best start in five years...