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...write it because their society was nonliterate, but it can be reconstructed from their actions, recorded by the English. The task is not an easy one, for the new arrivals had blinkers on. The "Strangers," as the Powhatan called them, assumed that their lies about being mere visitors driven into Chesapeake Bay by the Spanish were taken seriously by credulous native people lacking experience with Europeans. That belief led all of them, including the usually canny John Smith, to underestimate the people they intended to colonize...
...also the Virginia Co. investors who funded Jamestown and were impertinent enough to expect a return. Forget it, Smith wrote his London underwriters. There was no sense digging for gold where nature had left none, he scoffed, nor would the rock-strewn James River ever guide their wind-driven square-riggers on some long-dreamed-of shortcut to China. Disenchanted investors, he concluded, were free to join him in Jamestown, where their odds of surviving were about...
...good thing. It's time to stop the griping, and appreciate the DH position for featuring the game's brightest offensive talent. Though the current DHs are by no means Gold Glovers, they are no longer one-dimensional hitters. The game's current obsession with on-base percentage, driven by Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's stat-driven Moneyball methods, demands that they hit for power and average, and draw walks. "The skill that has the longest shelf life is on-base percentage," says Beane. "And the DH allows you the opportunity to continue to use that skill...
...minimal and everyone radiates bonhomie - except for some of Nick's fellow officers, who think the by-the-book cop is too suspicious of local customs. As the avuncular chief (Jim Broadbent) tells him, "You come from a city where there's danger round every corner, and it's driven you round the bend." Nick's only ally is the chief's son Danny (Nick Frost, also from Shaun of the Dead), a Marmaduke-like patrolman whose love of American action films makes him think of Nick as Martin Riggs and Marcus Burnett combined, but with a nicer accent...
...even amid public acts of mourning, stoicism reigned. Rob Yanskie, a childhood friend of Caitlin Millar Hammaren, who was killed in Norris Hall, bent down to touch a stone to be dedicated in her name, one of 32 arranged in a half-circle on the grass. He had driven from New York with another of Hammaren's friends to say goodbye. They did not weep. "Basically we've decided to celebrate her life instead of mourning," he said...