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There are many reasons for the Indians' turnaround: an infusion of capital from brothers Richard and David Jacobs, who bought the club at the end of the 1986 season; the leadership of Mike Hargrove, the manager who steadied the team after a tragic boating accident in the spring of '93 killed two pitchers and injured another; the savvy of general manager John Hart, who traded for Kenny Lofton, Jose Mesa, Carlos Baerga and Omar Vizquel, among others; and, of course, the new ball park, which is slightly derivative of Baltimore's Camden Yards but not at all derivative of depressing...
...tragic deaths of Harvard students Trang Ho and Sinedu Tadesse on May 28 not only shocked the Cambridge community, but the entire nation...
...anonymous letter from the disturbed gay man, the flurry of suicides and the tragic murder that occurred here mark a sad increase in the number of troubled youth. Ours is the first generation in history that will, on average, be worse off than our parents'. We're growing up in a world that is significantly more complex, more uncertain and more dangerous than ever before...
...biggest shock to Carter's Harvard careercame her sophomore year after a tragic accident...
Everyone from President Clinton to Senator Dole is cashing in on the tragic events of Oklahoma. They are turning the bombing into an occasion for meditating on the (shattered) American dream, rather than an opportunity for carrying out a substantive evaluation of what happened at Oklahoma City, and why. To be sure, that is the role of the courts, and we should expect to hear much about the bombing--O.J.-style--in the years to come. Yet, the government has already proved itself incapable of simply letting the judiciary handle this matter. At the very least, the legislatures should meddle...