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...every school day of his childhood, my grandfather padded barefoot down eight kilometers of dirt track to go to class. His family was poor, but understood this blistering walk was the ticket to a better life - one that would lead him from an obscure village in Kerala to success in India's cities. A landmark bill put into effect this month aims to open his path to all, making free education a fundamental right for children between 6 and 14. The law is sorely needed in a country with the world's largest population of young people. At least...
...walk for sophomore Marcus Way in the second inning marked the only other time a Harvard player reached base in those first four...
...game was quiet until the bottom of the sixth, when Krysiak sparked the offense with a single to the shortstop. Schellberg followed up with a walk, and a wild pitch allowed both runners to advance...
...always hitting balls out of the park. He got his start in baseball at the age of two, learning from his father, Phil. While Marcus could barely walk and talk, he was already holding a baseball bat in his hands...
...walk," the local police chief told him. "We have to drive." And so they drove - 20 km west of Senjaray and then south. They were nowhere near town. "You might well ask, Why there?" Ellis says. Well, as it happened both Hajji Lala and the police chief owned farmland just south of the proposed canal. "But who was I to stand in the way of progress?" Ellis adds, dryly. "I could put hundreds of people to work, pay them 600 Afghans [$3] a day." It was the beginning of a partnership. Ellis wanted to prove he could produce. The project...