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Sent off to relatives as a baby, Gray Sexton's recalls being "abandoned" by her mother at an early age. In probably the longest case of post-partum depression, the poet-to-be insisted for years that she was unable to take care of her daughters (the author has a sister, Joy, two years her junior), claiming at times that she hated them and even desired to kill them. This feeling of dismissal was only punctuated by the indifference and/or actual abuse Gray Sexton met in her different foster homes...
...very next drive, however, the Crimson roared back. Mounting one of the longest drives of the game--stretching from the end of the first quarter through the first three minutes of the second--Harvard used the hard-nosed running of sophomore tailback Eion Hu and a 20-yard completion from Ferrara to freshman split end Coby Skelton to drive from its own 32 to the Cornell nine. There, Ferrara hit junior flanker Mike Halligan at the knees on a right post-pattern for the squad's first touchdown of the game...
Terry Anderson, the best-known and longest-held American in the 1980s Beirut hostage crisis, filed suit today against 11 government agencies to shake loose official documents about his ordeal. The former Associated Press correspondent claims the materials are being withheld by the U.S. government without just cause. The State Department says it's not releasing documents because they could endanger national security. Anderson also says State told him the materials would "violate the personal privacy" of his terrorist-kidnappers. Anderson, who's peppered the government with Freedom of Information Act requests for a book about his Hizballah captors...
Bagwell, Gwynn, Griffey and Williams may yet have their years in the sun, but what really depresses is the realization that with every week and month of games lost, for all the fans still waiting patiently through this longest of rain delays, that many more foul balls don't get sprayed into the crowd, and kids like me, or real kids half my age, can't hold them aloft with the triumphant innocence of youth. And when baseball loses its youth, we won't have baseball...
Herrnstein was diagnosed with cancer in early June after teaching at Harvard for 36 years--the longest tenure of any of his departmental colleagues...