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...team pounded Tufts with 22 hits during the game-17singles, 4 doubles, and a triple. Lisa "Mouse" Bernstein even squeaked into second on a steal, exasperating the Tufts team. Tufts played a basic seive strategy, yielding six errors during the game...
Offensive stars for Harvard (a team batting over..300) included Ellen Jakovic. Lisa Bernstein, and Pat Horne, all of whom went three for three...
...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...
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...