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Harvard third baseman Steffan Wilson has signed a contract with the Milwaukee Brewers, who selected him with the 851st overall pick in the 28th round of the 2007 MLB First-Year Player Draft on Friday...
Wilson continues in a line of recent Harvard non-seniors confronted with the option of departing school early to test their fortunes in the bushes. John Wolff and Frank Herrmann, a late-round pick and a free-agent pickup, respectively, both left Cambridge after their junior campaigns in 2005. Zak Farkes elected to return to campus in 2004 to improve his standing after being taken by his hometown Boston Red Sox in the 39th round following a 14-homer sophomore season. But Farkes was not picked again the next summer and inked a free-agent deal with...
Wilson also benefited from the advice of his older brother Jon, a right-handed pitcher who was a 27th-round pick of the Texas Rangers...
...Opinion polls and projections through the second round of voting on June 16 predict that Sarkozy's Union for a Popular Majority (UMP) and its center-right allies will win over 42% of the vote - under France's proportional representation rules, that would give the President and his allies between 410 and 430 of the parliament's 577 seats. Leftist parties led by the Socialists are urging the electorate to give them control of parliament as a hedge against the dramatic reforms promised by Sarkozy, but opinion polls suggest voters are not interested in restraining the hand of their...
NASCAR, by contrast, seems, despite all the grease, clean. Wholesome. As it roars round the track, it climbs ever higher in the public's affection and esteem. It celebrates things about the American character--power, speed, courage, risk taking, fun--that we are reluctant to surrender, at least psychically. And thanks to Bill France Jr., it celebrates national inclusiveness...