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Robinson is an appealing throwback. In an age in which sports stars tend to spout safely meaningless clichés ("We gave 110%"), Robby speaks his mind. Whereas other managers coddle players, Robinson demands respect. Pitcher Tomo Okha turned his back on the skipper when he lifted Okha from a game. Days later, a trade exiled Okha to Milwaukee. "You've always got to play hard for Frank," says Washington outfielder Jose Guillen, who arrived this season with a hothead reputation but leads the team with 11 homers, sans trouble. "You don't come prepared for the ballpark...
...first hint of trouble would probably be no more than shadows flitting through the darkness outside one of the nation's nuclear power reactors. Beyond the fencing, black-clad snipers would take aim at sentries atop guard towers ringing the site. The guards tend to doubt they would be safe in their bullet-resistant enclosures. They call such perches iron coffins, which is what they could become if the terrorists used deadly but easily obtainable .50-cal. sniper rifles...
...together for their parents' sake. As a child, psychologist Bedford, for example, often fought with her twin, Barbara, and her elder sister Margie. In adulthood, the three women harbored grudges and rarely saw one another. But in 1985, after Margie had a serious accident, her siblings teamed up to tend to her through months of rehab. The three of them talked through their childhood conflicts. Margie was their father's favorite, Barbara was their mother's, and Victoria felt like a neglected middle child. The women acknowledged those realities but also showed one another that there was a flip side...
...general view in the neighborhood is that undergraduates very often don’t think about their neighbors very much and they tend to be less considerate than students who are a little bit older,” Van Meter says...
...this contact has been shown to be beneficial to undergraduates’ academic experience. “We know that students who develop a relationship with a faculty adviser tend to be more satisfied than students who don’t,” O’Brien says...