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This scene has not been uncommon this season for the Harvard women's softball team, as co-captain Lisa "Mouse" Bernstein has bouyed and bunted her team into an 11-4 season that saw the squad finish only two games and three runs away from an Ivy League Championship...
Lisa "Mouse" Bernstein, a senior in Leverett House, didn't play softball her first year here. "I only thought that I would have time for basketball," she admits. "In fact, that's where I got my nickname 'mouse'. It was during the halftime of a basketball game, we were losing, and as we dejectedly walked into the locker room all the team could hear was the squeak of my knee-brace--it drove them crazy. That incident combined with my small size and quick little scurry on the court earned me the nickname 'mouse'. The squeak drove them crazy...
...Bernstein, not one to take herself too seriously, thinks that being elected co-captain of the team (the other captain is Betty Ippolito) has proved a rewarding experience. "I've enjoyed it so much--it's great to have your fellow teamates look up to you, besides it looks good on your resume--I'm so glad I paid them all to vote for me," she quips with a grin...
...weeks, when the season ends, Bernstein along with many of the other softball players, will receive a varsity letter for her performance this year. "The varsity letter really isn't what's important to me. yeah. I'll get a nice letter sweater for a great senior going away present--that's terrific...
...names of the anonymous child and his mother. He believed Cooke's story that her own life was in danger. Bob Woodward, the metropolitan editor, believed the story too-which is surprising, since in the bestselling Watergate books that made millionaires of Woodward and his partner Carl Bernstein, he made such a proud point of how every Watergate detail had to be doubly verified by a second source, often the still unidentified Deep Throat. (Since the scandal broke, the Post has gamely printed some tough critical mail, including: "Is it possible that little 'Jimmy' does, in fact...