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Like it is for so many hitters, however, the Cape League has been humbling for Farkes. Though Farkes has shown an aptitude for hitting with wooden bats during off-season practices, according to teammates, he has struggled using wood in the historically pitcher-dominant league this summer, batting only .211 with five doubles and one home run. Farkes leads the last-place Gatemen in runs scored, however, and has been hot of late, raising his average 15 points over the past few games heading into the all-star break this weekend...
Until he attends his first class in September, he is still eligible to sign with the Sox, but his difficulties with the wood bat coupled with his lower-than-expected draft position will likely combine to bring the All-Ivy first teamer back to Harvard for his junior season...
...like Lacoste, maker of the alligator-adorned polo shirt, and Sebago, of Docksides fame, have relaunched their hallmark items with a modern flavor. Retailers like Urban Outfitters, which rode the grunge wave in the past decade, are stocking up on such preppy classics as candy-color ribbon belts and wood-handled Bermuda bags. Isaac Mizrahi showed preppy-inspired outfits, pictured right, from his latest collection last month in New York City?available in the U.S. at Target stores and online at target.com. Even home-furnishings designers like Jonathan Adler are bringing back preppy classics, including needlepoint pillows. But today...
...James Dieter, a designer whose company, dform, sells wood-veneer lamps cut into interlocking patterns, attributes the popularity of natural materials to improvements in manufacturing. "There are really amazing things that can be molded with wood," he says...
...whom have been bouncing around Bangkok for decades. After more than a few fingers of bourbon, Squaronians delight in chewing the fat under the Texas Aggie flag and the moth-eaten Cape buffalo head that?alongside yellowed Waylon Jennings and Kitty Wells record covers?grace the bar's wood-paneled walls. They'll wax nostalgic over fortunes made and squandered, over women loved and comrades lost. They'll whisper of gun running in Laos, of Tet and of black ops. Tall tales? Who knows. Truth, legends and conspiracy theories overlap and blur once the booze is flowing...