Williams Alum Helps Canadian Softball Team Reach Bronze Medal Game

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TOKYO -- On Sunday, 2009 Williams College graduate Joey Lye started at shortstop for Team Canada softball in its final preliminary round game against Italy.
 
Canada won by mercy rule, 8-1, and Lye had a big night. She went 2-for-2 with a single and a triple, scored two runs, stole a base, and recorded one assist.
 
Canada will face Mexico in the bronze medal game. In their preliminary round contest Canada prevailed over Mexico, 4-0.
 
The win over Italy sets up Canada with an opportunity to win its first medal in Olympics softball at midnight on July 27. That medal game will be telecast on NBC's streaming services.
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Letter: Vote for Someone Other Than Trump

Letter to the Editor

To the Editor:

I urge my Republican friends to vote for someone other than Donald Trump in November. His rallies are getting embarrassingly sparse and his speeches more hostile and confused. He's looking desperately for money, now selling poor-quality gold sneakers for $399. While Trump's online fans embrace him more tightly, more and more of the people who actually worked with Trump have broken with him, often issuing statements denouncing his motives, intellect, and patriotism.

Mike Pence is the most recent, but the list now includes William Barr, former attorney general (who compared him to a 9-year-old); former NSC Chairs Bolton and McMaster; former Defense Secretaries Mattis and Esper; former Chiefs of Staff Kelly and Mulvaney; former Secretary of State Tillerson; former Homeland Security chief Bossert; and former Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, who referred to Trump as a "wannabe dictator." This level of rejection by former colleagues is unprecedented in American politics.

Are these people just cozying up to the Establishment "Uniparty," as his fans would have it? No. Most of them are retired from politics. It's just that they see the danger most clearly. General Milley is right. Trump's most constant refrain is his desire to hurt his critics, including traditional conservatives. Although Liz Cheney lost her Wyoming seat in Congress, he now wants her jailed for investigating him.

This man should not be president of the USA.

Jim Mahon
Williamstown, Mass.

 

 

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