Jeff Cirillo's Fielding Form

Cirillo, the new third baseman for the Mariners, tied a major league record this past weekend with 99 straight games without an error. Looking at this picture, you can see why. He has perfect fielding form. Knees bent, butt down, glove on the ground, throwing hand down as well. Do it this way, little leaguer and you may get to spend the college fund on yourself, because you may score yourself a scholarship.   

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Natalie Portman Strikes Back

On Wednesday, the Jerusalem-born actress objected tartly in the Harvard Crimson to law student Faisal Chaudhry's April 11 essay on U.S. policy concerning Israel and the Palestinians. Chaudhry framed the Arab-Israeli violence as "Israel's racist colonial occupation" in which "white Israeli soldiers destroy refugee camps of the brown people they have dispossessed for decades."

Her letter in the Crimson.  

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Gore comes out swinging

How long they get away with it depends on how long they can sow confusion and doubt. But with folks wearing bikinis in Boston in the middle of April and with the massive melting of ice at both poles and in nearly every mountain glacier on earth, public awareness and concern are growing rapidly.

At a time when the world needs enduring leadership from the United States to rally all nations to join in a concerted effort to stop global warming, the administration is working overtime to block any progress whatsoever.

You go Al!  

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