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...only the second pitch thrown in the contest by UMass (13-12) reliever Anthony Gallo, but for Coach Joe Walsh and the members of the Crimson, it couldn’t have come at any better time...
...discipline and punishment need understanding, sympathy, psychological aid. The swift changes in the industrial order in the last twenty years have meant equally swift changes in the social order, and lives must be adjusted to meet them. Even older people are dazed, and too often young people are thrown completely off their balance...
...modest rise in troop strength may not be enough to fight a two-front insurgency, prepare the way for elections and resume the reconstruction of Iraq, which was thrown into upheaval by the violence last week. Those calling for an even bigger force point to a historical comparison: in Northern Ireland, the ratio of British police and troops to civilians at the conflict's height was 20 per 1,000; a comparable U.S. presence in Iraq would require 500,000 troops. That might well be what it would take in Iraq, but the U.S. has almost nowhere to turn...
...amazing thing about Blue Blood is that where a lesser writer would just have gone numb, Conlon stays alive to the humor and the sadness and the ironies of life even in the teeth of the city's everyday assault--bricks (and, once, a canned ham) thrown from rooftops, the festering bitterness of precinct-house feuds, the bizarro underworld of the midnight shift, the agony, both Dantean and Sisyphean, of sifting through the rubble of the World Trade Center that has been moved to Staten Island. Conlon has no ambitions as a whistle-blower or a hero--he's neither...
...performance consisted of Chu and another graduate student, Gabriella Gruder-Poni, literally having an IM conversation—only one that was shown on a giant screen and in front of an audience. Before the instant-messaging could begin, however, a lot of spoken words had to be thrown around—Chu first gave a crash course in messaging to IM newbie Gabriella Gruder-Poni. Amidst audience protests that “this is against the rules,” Chu vocally prompted Gruder-Poni to “press send.” Finally signed on to AOL?...