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...January 1945, we were transferred to Hikari Naval Special Tactical Force Base, near a small fishing village facing the Japan Inland Sea and home of the kaiten, Japan?s one-man suicide submarines. I underwent training as a kaiten pilot...
...then the Yanks again. What to make of those four days? A disaster, of course. Game One exposed our frail bullpen anew. Game Two was all about the Yankees starting-pitching problems. Game Three showed how bad we?re playing, even this late in the season: base-running screw-ups, a desultory air permeating Fenway on a sultry day-even though the Yankees were in town. Game Four was this droning ballgame that you just knew we weren?t going to win. Wakefield goes nine, but gives up just enough homers. Stopgap Leiter holds the Sox just enough...
...Young Roger Clemens, a rook, seemed bewildered by the BLOHARDS when he was a guest at the first club lunch I attended. And, memorably, Butch Hobson, when he was manager, threatened to take us on en masse during his remarks after Berry had tweaked Hobson?s third-base coach, the immortal Zimmer, in commentary during the slide show. Hobson really was fuming. It was a tense moment. I don?t think it had anything to do with Butch?s cocaine problem, but I could be wrong...
...We’re certainly not as international in terms of our alumni base as other [Harvard] schools,” said Michael Rodman, a GSE spokesman. Rodman said that although he had only anecdotal information about the safety of GSE’s London graduates, he had “no reason to believe that...[any] have been directly affected” by the bombings...
...Japan today, reduced expectations are becoming increasingly common. As the world's second largest economy struggles to evolve from its mainstay manufacturing base into technology and high-value service industries, several generations of Japanese are in danger of becoming lost in transition. Following the crash of the early 1990s that ended the Japanese postwar economic miracle, Japan's public and private sectors have been slashing their work forces, cutting off bad-risk borrowers, and streamlining operations in an attempt to remain competitive in an increasingly global economy. Many of its world-class companies have succeeded in doing just that...