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...takes a rare talent to make indoor baseball practice work inside a place like Palmer-Dixon. It takes a rarer talent to convert that practice into wins—13 in the Ivies last year, to be exact. Walsh, Harvard’s head coach, has it in spades. He’s a salty old cod, a jovial man bent on making games worth playing: he hasn’t had a losing Ivy season in ten years...
...search for prime young baseball talent usually takes him to places where the accent sounds more Mars than Massachusetts. “When I make calls down [South and West], they’re on the other end of the line going, ‘who is this...
...aspirations of its people is now being challenged in a way few imagined possible. It is premature to declare any sort of “victory,” and the Bush administration has rightfully been wary of premature optimism. Middle Eastern regimes have a unique and regrettable talent for surviving in power, and it is not impossible that they will ride out this wave of popular discontent and mobilization. We do, however, think that those brave souls in Beirut’s Martyrs’ Square are right when they chant that the “time is up?...
...phonetically; instead of saying something is great, he says it's "one hundred dollars"--you have to fight back the image of Jonathan Lipnicki, the kid from Jerry Maguire. But these doubts are pulverized by the book's devastating set pieces, which are of the kind only a genuine talent who knows exactly what he wants to say can pull off. Foer's rendition of the Allied bombing of Dresden, in a flashback involving Oskar's grandfather Thomas, has the punishing, visceral vividness of the battle scenes from The Red Badge of Courage. "Rapid, approaching explosions" sound "like an applauding...
...Leaders have to recognize that the traditional male model that was put in place when it was all men in the workplace will not be the one that will fully utilize human talent,” Buck Luce said...