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...pitches. After Harvard picked up a run in the bottom of the frame to regain the four-run advantage, Perlman fanned two more in the seventh, with the second out of the inning coming on a weak dribbler to the mound. “He was just pounding the zone and doing everything he had to do, and I thought he did a really good job,” Walsh said. “He’s in total control of himself, in control of his pitches. He’s a bulldog.”With the victories...
...freshman starter was cruising until the top of the sixth inning, having given up only two hits up to that point. Then, with the Bulldogs’ second baseman Justin Ankney in the hole on an 0-2 count, Perlman uncharacteristically left a pitch hanging in the strike zone. Ankney jumped on the ball, slamming a hard line drive well over the right field fence. After a mistake like that to the No. 2 hitter and with the meat of the lineup coming up, some rookies might lose their confidence and fall apart. Not Max Perlman...
...assault apparently aimed at chilling negotiations between the Iraqi government and a faction of the insurgency, the Iraqi Parliament, located in Baghdad's high-security Green Zone, suffered a bomb attack. An official at the Ministry of the Interior told TIME that the bomber was wearing a suicide vest and was likely a guard for one of the members of parliament. The blast went off just after 2 p.m. on Thursday at the cafe in the central atrium of the building just outside the main hall where politicians, staff and journalists often meet...
...Baghdad Convention Center, where Parliament is housed, was not operating Thursday, said the official, who was suspicious of a wider plot. U.S. forces have sealed off the building and are conducting an investigation into the blast. Two weeks ago, Coalition forces found two suicide vests inside the Green Zone and there was speculation about the presence of a third in the area...
...recent weeks. That was the likely motive in an earlier attack on March 23, when Deputy Prime Minister Salam al-Zubaie was hospitalized after an attack reportedly carried out by a guard who detonated a suicide vest at al-Zubaie's compound on the edge of the Green Zone. Al-Zubaie, a Sunni from a powerful tribe west of Baghdad, is an important promoter of the reconciliation policy...