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Senior Chaney Sheffield is a good four inches taller and 50 pounds heavier than the Crimson’s description of Wingate, who played back when Babe Ruth had yet to don a Red Sox uniform, let alone get dealt to the Yankees. Sheffield’s resemblance to Wingate in the mind’s eye of a local Boston journalist—along with a timely milestone in Boston sports history—combined to alter Sheffield’s role on the Harvard baseball team and give the Crimson a much-needed boost at the plate...
...wanted to get a kid that looked like him,” Buckley says of Sheffield. “He looked like him, had the right kind of trot, good smile, seemed the right kind of guy. He sort of looked like an old -timer. Then we put the uniform on and he was a dead ringer...
...Islamic Conference in Kuala Lumpur to exempt Palestinian bombers from their definition of terrorism. Says Marzouk: "The term terrorism should not be applied to people whose land is occupied." And if the victims of those fighting occupation are civilians? "There shouldn't be any distinction between an occupier in uniform or civilian dress," Marzouk argues. "If a man dressed as a civilian carried a gun and took my house, my land and my right, how can I say that he is a civilian and has nothing to do with...
...adolescent Benjamin Trotter, whom his schoolmates jokingly call Bent Rotter—from the British slang for homosexual—the book tackles the standard issues of English high school, such as dealings with the opposite sex, parents, bullies, peers and, of course, the tribulations of wearing a uniform. But it also breaches the deeper problems of labor relations and unions, race relations, music, extra-marital affairs, the aftermath of World War II, religion, meaningless sex and the conflict between Britain and Ireland. Remarkably, the book also manages to be incredibly funny for much of the time...
Next Friday night: I accompany Cadet Brian R. Smith ’02 to the ROTC military ball. Uniforms everywhere. Brian, besides wearing a dress uniform and acting very gentlemanly, introduces me to the four-star general and countless other muckety-mucks in the high command. We go back to Harvard after an impassioned speech by the general and welcome every single Air Force Cadet in the ROTC program to Brian’s common room. I feel empowered by the fact that I am bigger and stronger than the AF-ROTC troglodyte girls and force them to drink Pabst...