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...Player of the Year honors after winning seven league games with a 1.12 ERA, despite often pitching both ends of doubleheaders. Thoke, who presently boasts 422 career strikeouts, is on pace to break the school record of 475, which is held by Tasha Cupp '98. She will be a vital leader on and off of the field...
...have repeatedly criticized the search committee for its refusal to involve the entire Harvard community in what is perhaps the most important decision a university can make. Students had a profound interest in participating in this vital discussion on Harvard's future--it seems unrealistic to believe that Harvard students would have had nothing to contribute to the selection of the president of their University...
Since Cheney is not vice-presidential standby equipment but rather a vital part of the Bush Administration, his medical fragility (if that's what it is) raises semiurgent questions about illness and power. When young John Kennedy was elected in 1960, he had already been given the sacrament of Extreme Unction several times. He had suffered for years from life-threatening Addison's disease. Kennedy succeeded Dwight Eisenhower, whose presidency was much afflicted by heart trouble and ileitis. Lyndon Johnson, following J.F.K., had a history of heart attacks and a Rabelaisian appetite for all sorts of things that were...
These were working-class kids, and a lot of these guys ended up in Vietnam just a couple years later. In those days they were still doing the thing with the cigarettes - the pack held in place with a rolled-up T-shirt sleeve. Elvis was still important, still vital, at least to them. They wore their hair like Elvis, slicked back. They tore apart cars or motorcycles and undeneath their fingernails there was always a line of black. I called them greasers. They had names...
...looking forward to seeing how the attendees interact with the speakers and challenge them on the vital issues in biotechnology," Shanbhag said...