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...right way. It's been proven by clubs that have won [the World Series]-the Angels have won, the Marlins have won. Those clubs seem to spend their money on pitching. In my time with the Yankees, I always felt that, yeah, we got Jason Giambi, we got Alex Rodriguez-but what we really needed to do was shore up our pitching in order to be a better postseason club...
...That bleak reality has some observers, such as Alex de Waal, program director at the Social Science Research Council in New York, wondering whether Darfur, in particular, will be a high water mark for the idea of an "international responsibility to protect." Says de Waal: "For complex peacekeeping operations to work - i.e. those that involve civilian protection, rebuilding governance structures - they seem to need such a high ratio of input to outcome that they are feasible only in small places like Kosovo, East Timor, Sierra Leone ... and possibly the Comoros. Try doing it on a larger scale with a serious...
...going to be about managing our injuries,” Madick says. “Pushing ourselves, but knowing when enough is enough.”Until Roberts and Watkins are ready to contribute on a more regular basis, sophomore Margaux Black, freshman Alex Torres, and junior Bailey Vertovez have all taken over some of the pitching responsibilities.In two tournaments, Black, Torres, and Vertovez, have pitched 7.1, 2.0, and 6.2 innings, respectively. In comparison, Madick has already worked 37.1 innings, more than the other three combined.“[The pitching staff] has a lot of experience, so they know...
...hard enough to get through the unpredictable road that is the Ivy season. FAB FOURWhen it arrived at Harvard, the softball class of 2011 was lucky enough to become part of the reigning Ivy League champions. But if the rookie crew of Caitlin Bowers, Emily Henderson, Ellen Macadam, and Alex Torres wants to help keep the title in Cambridge in 2008, the freshmen are going to need to fill some important holes. The most notable gaps left in the Harvard line-up after last year’s successful campaign are at second and short, where Lauren Brown...
...including “specialization, subsidy, and creativity.” Although Steiger acknowledged that some of his suggestions may be “simply wrong,” he emphasized that those in the newspaper business “need to experiment.” Shorenstein Center Director Alex S. Jones, who introduced Steiger last night, said that the former managing editor is attempting to “keep the golden age [of newspaper journalism] alive” through his work as editor in chief and president of ProPublica, an independent non-profit that Jones described as resisting...