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...final crucial absentee is one of those sophomores, Virginia Fritsch, the team’s leading run producer from a year ago, out for the season with a shoulder injury. That will leave much of the offensive burden to Gordon, the first baseman. Gordon led the team with a .317 average last season and ranked second with four home runs...
...from President Bush himself. But he first he bumped into a much more popular person - at least in New England. "Seeing Johnny Damon in a suit was an interesting sight," he joked. And the World Champion Boston Red Sox weren't the only athletes on the Hill last week. Virginia Reps. Bob Goodlatte (R), Virgil Goode (R) and Jim Moran (D) were there as Shaquille O'Neal was sworn in as an honorary deputy U.S. marshal as part of his work with the Safe Surfin' Foundation, a group that works on protecting kids from meeting potential sexual predators online. Next...
...humorous first act might be unexpected from a play by Albee (best known for his misanthropic work Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ), but the humor is never without an edge. When A querulously issues contradictory demands, prompting her nurse to comically scramble in exasperation, audience members are uncomfortably aware that their laughter is derived from an old woman’s senility. The thin line between humor and pain that Women treads is on full display at the end of Act One, when A delivers an anecdote about her husband that veers from amusing to uncomfortable...
...past decades. Adolescents are fragile, growing things that have neither been genetically or socially fully integrated into their environment. It was partially a scientific evolution and the support of the American Psychological Association (APA) that allowed the Court to decide as it did. The logic of Atkins v. Virginia, a 2002 case which established that poor reasoning and impulse control precludes the execution of the retarded, comes into play here; although adolescents will one day be fully functional adults, until that day they are a riotous mess of chemicals and brain-size fluctuations. Recent research on the maturation...
...terrorist activity. The result has been to bring insurgents to justice and to foster the emergence of two fledgling democracies. The free elections in those countries will perhaps inspire others to follow, thus spreading democracy and making the world a safer place for us all. Len Murtha Glen Allen, Virginia, U.S. The Iraqi elections were a triumph. Having reservations about this milestone and what is to come next, however, has nothing to do with partisan politics and everything to do with being realistic. A free election is no miracle cure for an Iraq that has become a haven for numerous...