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Gossage, who was a relief pitcher, is a victim of baseball's battle of the ages. Today's game is more specialized. In Gossage's era, relief pitchers often threw three innings to close out a game and get credited with a "save." Says the Goose: "I was brought into situations God couldn't get out of, and I got out of them." Now closers get those all-important saves by pitching a single inning or less. So they are able to pitch in more games and build their statistics. Gossage isn't the only former big leaguer with...
...victim of the alleged attack, Galo Garcia III ’05, contends that as he walked on Bow Street to a Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) party in Adams House last April 30, he was accosted by two white men who had been looking for a parking space...
...three American Harvard students clearly posed no threat to Israel, as any well-trained, efficient security force could have deduced. We, however, fell victim to the apparatus of subjugation Israel has craftily created. I guess $4.4 billion a year in aid is not even enough for a free pass to the holy land...
...suggesting that God wanted him to be President. But, yet again, Italian politics takes this to the next level. For Berlusconi, a wish from God is insufficient: after equating himself to Napoleon Bonaparte, he went on to say he was like Jesus Christ, a “tireless victim that sacrifices himself for everyone.” Right—after all, he has just been in office for a decade and he is only Forbes’ 25th richest man. Quite appropriately, an opposition politician pointed out how unhappy Jesus’ family must be. Fortunately, Berlusconi?...
...incompetent administration and lack of sustained attention” hampered Summers’ agenda more than any resistance by the faculty. “[I]n a university that orients itself toward external markers of prestige and influence,” Lewis concluded, “Summers is a victim in this drama, not a villain—a victim not of faculty anger but of his success at the role assigned to him.” Lewis called on students, faculty, alumni, and members of the governing boards to restore “a true core to undergraduate education...