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Following his freshman season, Hendricks played in the Alaska Baseball League. This summer he is slated to play for the Brewster Whitecaps in the Cape Cod League. Toss in his stint with the NECBL, and Hendricks will have played in the three most prestigious summer leagues in America by graduation—if he’s not playing minor league ball this summer instead...

Author: By Lande A. Spottswood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: LONE STAR: Texas Boy Hendricks Takes Long Road to Big Leagues | 4/10/2003 | See Source »

Drop the mercury below 40 degrees. Let the skies open and the rain come down in sheets. Toss in a few course repairs, lengthen the par-4s, move the tees back to the tips and what...

Author: By Timothy Jackson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Golf Finishes Third at Bucknell | 4/8/2003 | See Source »

...should have been no surprise that a regime noted for its cruelty would toss out the gentleman's guide to war by fielding irregulars like the Fedayeen Saddam. These estimated 20,000 young "men of sacrifice," commanded by the ruler's notorious older son Uday, are the regime's most politically reliable force, known for their readiness to carry out its dirty work. Beginning in 1995, Uday recruited local toughs from Sunni regions devoted to Baath rule to form a family security force under his personal control. Originally in charge of smuggling, the Fedayeen were schooled to become a ruthless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The Strategy: 3 Flawed Assumptions | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

...Despite being warned not to throw food to civilians along the way, many soldiers gave into the pleas; every few trucks someone would toss off a meal. Every time I saw it, the closest kid would scramble for the package and then take it directly to an old man about 50 yards behind each gaggle of kids. This man was stockpiling the meals, presumably for later consumption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Long Road Ahead | 3/29/2003 | See Source »

Talk to a Bush supporter, and you hear giddy things. Talk to a Bush skeptic, and you hear the end of human life as we know it. In Washington last week, almost all the scenarios were extreme. "If you tear up all the rules and toss them in the air," said Ashton Carter, a Defense official in the Clinton Administration, now agonizing at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, "the results can be really good or really bad--but they're definitely going to be really different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Poker Player in Chief | 3/17/2003 | See Source »

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