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...against Trinity junior Rushabh Vora. Hill started off strong and took the first game, 9-8, but then Vora rallied back to take the next two games, 9-5 and 9-2. Hill claimed the fourth game, 9-3, and in the match game the freshman edged out his Bantam opponent, 9-7, on his way to the “B” bracket championship. “It was a great win for him,” junior captain Verdi DiSesa said. “It was a sign of a lot of progress. During that match...
...point the entire match. The next day of competition against Trinity would prove to be far more of a challenge for Harvard. The Crimson fell, 9-0, but a few matches were close and could have had very different outcomes. Fourth seeded Buchanan took a 2-1 lead on Bantam opponent freshman Andres Vargas Heredia, but Buchanan could not hold on and lost the match, 3-2. The eighth-ranked Smith also took his match to four games. Down 0-2, Smith was able to rally back in the third game but was defeated in the fourth game...
...long ago, and if you listen he'll tell you his secret: alcohol. "I enjoy drinking," says Okamura, who still has the posture of the middle school principal he once was. "Shochu, whatever. If it's alcoholic, I'll drink it." It appears to be working: At 90, the bantam-sized Okamura is still fit for his age and trim everywhere but in the ear lobes. While the other residents in the Yairo-en Special Nursing Home's gleaming rec room watch high-school baseball on TV, Okamura passes the time playing piano, pausing only to pose for a photo...
Still, writing a novel is not like writing songs, and it took Portman a while to adjust. Beverly Horowitz, publisher of Bantam Delacorte Dell's young-readers division, said he had to do a lot of revisions to clarify and simplify his manuscript. "Frank was able to come to understand that there's a difference between writing a novel and music," she says. "You can't stand next to it and say, 'This is what I meant in Chapter...
...Cornell Food and Brand Lab. Most of the time we don't even know we're making them--until we discover that our clothes no longer fit. Wansink wants to alert the public to this dietary sleepwalking. His new book, Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think (Bantam), is a fascinating look at the hidden psychology of eating, with tips to help people sidestep the fattening ploys of food manufacturers and restaurateurs. TIME's ANDREA SACHS spoke with Wansink...