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...wild pitch—and was lucky to pitch himself out of a fifth-inning jam. After allowing the sixth-inning home run, Eadington then hit Brown outfielder Ryan Murphy with a pitch. The plunking escalated the tension in an already emotional contest.Both benches were vocal throughout the game, and the Harvard dugout repeatedly expressed its displeasure with the work being done by the home-plate umpire. “I felt that the [umpire] was having a real tough time,” Walsh said. “It was on both sides but seemed to affect...
...historical revisionism. But more important is the emphasis on maintaining a “pure” tribe of Indians by blood—the insecure, marginalized community striking out at its own marginalized minority. The Cherokees’ concern with preserving their culture and heritage enables their most vocal members to play on tribal fears...
...Republic, called him a "Maoist, a Trotskyist ... a phenomenon unto himself." Starting in the 1950s, rebel philosopher-poet Egon Bondy drew followers with his surreal fiction--published and distributed covertly--which offered veiled, witty critiques of his country's Stalinist government. But the weirdest and most influential role the vocal Marxist played was as the inspiration and lyricist for a seminal Czech underground rock band, the Plastic People of the Universe. The arrest of the Plastics at a 1976 rally sparked Charter 77, the Havel-led protest movement that in 1989 toppled the communist regime...
...deals with his current group of young, talented players, highlighted by rising junior standouts Drew Housman and Evan Harris, will be the key to his success. And Amaker hopes that the Crimson will respond, not cower, in the face of his vocal and combative style of coaching, which mirrors that of his mentor Krzyzewski...
...Yakuza gangs have ties to right-wing groups, but right now there's no evidence that the shooting was politically motivated. Itoh was a liberal and a vocal opponent of nuclear weapons - a political necessity for any leader of Nagasaki. At the 60th anniversary of the city's bombing, Itoh angrily criticized the U.S. for continuing to maintain a massive atomic arsenal, and urged Japan to get out from under the American nuclear umbrella. (Tokyo has no nuclear weapons of its own, and depends on the U.S. for most of its security.) After North Korea tested a nuclear device last...