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Harvard got just one hit in the first inning, but it was a big one. After Idaho State hurler Nora Maschue walked the bases loaded, Macadam made her pay with a two-run single to left center...
...felt a little shaky on the first day, but a big part of pitching is when you don’t have your best stuff, trying to be effective,” Brown said. “My defense really helped me out, and we scored runs where we needed to, which was huge...
Real foodies should be concerned that critics like Sokolov are an endangered species. Their habitat - big-ticket, fine-dining restaurants - shrinks every year, encroached upon by gourmet hamburger joints, taco stands and various other chic, no-frills eateries. Their food supply - the expense accounts of large newspapers and magazines - has withered. And their most invaluable asset - their towering authority - has been leached away by blogs and review websites, leaving them without a place in the new ecosystem. All of which is too bad, because critics like Sokolov ought to be at the very center of it. (See pictures of what...
Sokolov is a rarity even among big-paper critics: though he was only officially the Journal's restaurant critic since the fall of 2005, he has written about food for decades, and brought a wealth of cumulative knowledge to the baffling array of weird foods, concepts and trends that a 21st century eater has to face. Critics, even at potent establishments like the New York Times, tend to be younger, and are often former reporters or freelancers who don't have much of a food background. Even those like Jonathan Gold at LA Weekly or Tom Sietsema of the Washington...
...settlements ahead of any peace deal, no country in the world - including the U.S. - recognizes East Jerusalem as Israeli territory. (Even George W. Bush, America's most ardently pro-Israel President, refrained from moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.) This disagreement between friends wasn't a big deal as long as there was an Israeli government committed to achieving peace based on the 1967 borders, or a U.S. Administration - like Bush's - that wasn't. But as long as the Obama Administration remains determined to press for a two-state solution to the region's longest-running...