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...Boston Red Sox's biggest move was stealing General Manager Dan Duquette from the Montreal Expos. In addition, the signing of outfielder Otis Nixon given the Bosox a potent leadoff hitter. How the new coaching staff and manager Butch Hobson will get along is still a mystery, especially after the unceremonious way his old staff was dumped by Lou Gorman (sort of like the way Gorman was dumped himself...
...Grubb (H), 235.80. 2. K. Miller (H), 229.275. 3. Hobson (D), 211.80. Harvard 175, Dartmouth...
...Grubb (H), 238.05. 2. K. Miller (H), 224.25. 3. Hobson (D), 214.35. Harvard 93, Dartmouth...
...assumptions that drive Americans' centuries-old quest for a better life. What they fail to acknowledge is that legal, educational and economic changes continuously alter the priorities within that same set of social variables. A few generations back, religion, race and custom superseded all other considerations. When Kathleen Hobson and Atul Gawande, both 27, married last year, however, they based their vision of a shared future on a different set of common values: an upper-middle-class upbringing in tight-knit families, a Stanford education and a love of intellectual pursuits...
Unlike many other mixed couples, Gawande, an Indian American, and Hobson, a white Episcopalian of old Southern stock, have always enjoyed a warm reception from both sets of parents. Still, when Hobson first visited the Gawandes in Ohio, not every one of their friends was ready to celebrate. "One Indian family didn't want to come because they were concerned about their children being influenced," Hobson says. Their wedding in Virginia was a harmonious blend of two cultures: although Kathleen wore a white gown and her minister officiated, the ceremony included readings from both Hindu and Christian texts...