Word: bernsteining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only by its works. It is the strange, unknowable force that deposited Lana Turner in a Schwab's pharmacy 46 years ago, that placed a football in Franco Harris' hands ("the immaculate reception") at the end of the Pittsburgh-Oakland championship game in 1972, that put Carl Bernstein in the newsroom of the Washington Post a few hours after the police found a strange collection of characters at the Watergate. (Actually, Watergate was a regular soap opera of the fortuitous: if one of the burglars had not stupidly left tape over the latch of a rear door...
...serviceable definition: "Luck is the residue of design." To be sure, luck obeys the laws of a spooky kind of antiphysics, but it responds to risk and reflexes. To some extent, it is true that people make their own luck. Given a lucky chance at the story, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward ran hard. Good luck must have room to occur. It can be encouraged, even though its exact mechanics remain perverse and mysterious. For its part, bad luck is so eventually inevitable that it is almost a sin to be surprised...
Leading the Crimson's awesome offensive attack is third baseman Pat Horne; batting, 640 with three home runs. Cleanup hitter Elaine Holpuch is right behind Horne with a .560 mark and four rountrippers. Even shortstop and co-captain Lisa "Mouse" Bernstein (.571), whom Coach Kit Morris says "could deliver the Boylston lecture on bunting" has provided some power. In the past week. Bernstein cracked the first two home runs of her career...
Still, team members are very optimistic. "Everybody's watching Yale, and they're not really aware of what we can do." Bernstein said after the Northeastern game...
...slow drizzle didn't lessen the effect of the Crimson nine's bats as the women surged to an 11-0 lead after two innings. Co-captain Lisa "The Mouse" Bernstein started the barrage with a lead-off home run--her second four-bagger in two games. Leftfielder Sara LeBlond knocked in six RBIs to lead the team in hits...