Word: tomming
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Harvard's most difficult task will be replacing its only two All-Ivy first teamers, Ricky Le '98 and Ivy Player of the Year Tom McLaughlin '98. With 12 newcomers and only 10 returning letter-winners from a year ago, that will be no easy task...
...sought-after prey of collectors and taxmen alike also bought the luckless Steve Trachsel membership in an equally exclusive fraternity--the college of Tracy Stallard and Tom Zachary, fellow victims of the pursuit of baseball immortality...
Perhaps that makes Tom Zachary a more appropriate historical analogue. In 19 big-league seasons with six teams, Zachary won 186 games and managed to collect two World Series rings, one with the Washington Senators in 1924 and one with the storied St. Louis Cardinals in 1926. But Zachary's best-known feat remains tossing the hanger Babe Ruth hit for number...
...contrition campaign continues. Senate Democrats were the latest audience for Bill Clinton's apology roadshow Thursday, and minority leader Tom Daschle gave it two thumbs up: "He shared his feelings and apologized to us personally," said Daschle. Indeed, by now there doesn't seem to be a Democrat in Washington to whom the President hasn't poured his heart out. And in case anyone missed it, Clinton discussed his strategy openly at a science awards ceremony the same afternoon; he spoke of "this process I'm going through of talking to people... to ask for their understanding, their forgiveness...
...October 1995. Opal had been a weak storm, but just before it struck, it underwent what forecasters call "rapid deepening," leaping from Category 2 to nearly Category 5, with winds at 150 m.p.h. It also started moving faster. Such rapid change is the thing emergency managers most fear. Says Tom Millwee, coordinator of the Texas Division of Emergency Management: "You go to bed thinking you've got a Cat 1 moving at 10 m.p.h. You wake up, it's a Cat 5 moving at 20 m.p.h...