His professors at the University of Massachusetts Amherst had set his graduate class an assignment - pick an economics paper and see if you can replicate the results.

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According to the affidavit, it contained the emptied fireworks, a jar of Vaseline and a UMass-Dartmouth homework assignment sheet from a class in which Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is currently enrolled.

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Even then, it is likely that they are tracking ether a Major Leaguer whose rehabilitation assignment sends him through the Class A minor league or the development of an up-and-coming ballplayer.

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