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...second straight loss for the Crimson, which played its 20th road game of the season. Harvard opens its home schedule Saturday with a doubleheader against Columbia...
...Martin finished 20th with a time of 3:49.94, about a second short of what he needed to make the consolation heat...
...baseball fallen? Consider this. The most dramatic event in baseball is the grand slam, an event so rare that the all-time grand-slam king, Lou Gehrig, hit only 23 in his entire career. There were 150,000 games played in the 20th century; in only nine did anyone hit two grand slams in a game. There were more than 1.3 million innings played; in not one did any player hit two in the same inning...
...from his pictures, people suffer in a setting stripped of anything that identifies this as the modern world. There are no cell phones, no plastic bags, just rigor mortis on bare ground, and each shot is a primordial scene in which you recognize what the late 20th century had in common with, say, the darkest moments of the 6th. Sometimes his pictures include unnerving bits of modern flotsam. In a Rwandan refugee camp in Zaire a young man lies dead in a heap of used plastic intravenous bags. Elsewhere in the camp the corpses are pushed into piles by bulldozers...
...would be hard to call this book hopeful, but it does at least end in Kosovo, the place where the West finally found the will and the means to intervene effectively in a regional calamity. Inferno is a book with the weight and density of one of those great 20th century works of broken-hearted testimony, of the Holocaust documentary Shoah or the string quartets of Shostakovich. With 382 black-and-white pictures spread across oversize pages, it has the heft of a gravestone, which is not so different from what it is, a cenotaph for the last victims...