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...center-field fence, giving her team the 7-6 walkoff win at Shea Field in Chestnut Hill.“We’re excited we found our offense today—we hadn’t scored six runs in a long time,” co-captain Bailey Vertovez said. “We had that game. One runaway inning for our defense…[we] need to help our pitcher on the mound and we would have won that game.”In the early going, it was all Harvard. Although freshman pitcher Marika Zumbro...
...Monday was sandwiched in between Sunday and Tuesday’s double-headers against Yale, in which Harvard took three of four from the Bulldogs.As it has been all season, some very timely hitting was the key for Harvard. In the second game of Tuesday’s twinbill, captain Harry Douglas knocked a single through the infield in the bottom of the ninth to take the series victory.The win marked the Crimson’s fourth walk-off win in its last eight Ivy League games.“I think that we’ve been a pretty...
Despite the successful operation to free the captain of the Maersk Alabama last weekend, Somali pirates continue to hold 16 ships with a total of 282 crew members, according to the International Maritime Bureau's piracy-reporting center, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Filipinos comprise nearly half the captives; a majority of the rest are from India, with smaller numbers from other South and Southeast Asian countries. In all these countries, sailing is seen as a tough but lucrative profession that fetches handsome dollar incomes relative to the amount of education required. Even amid the present economic gloom, officers' salaries have...
...hostage lately, India has been on the forefront in dealing with hostage situations off the Somali coast, particularly after the Hong Kong-registered MT Stolt Valor was hijacked in September of last year along with its crew of 22, including 18 Indians. The wife of the ship's Indian captain, Seema Goyal, waged a high-profile battle with the help of the media and the NUSI until the hostages were freed two months later. "I knew I would have to create pressure to get the government to act," says Goyal. "Otherwise, who cares about sailors from Asian countries?" (See more...
...multinational level. "Why, if the seafarers involved whites - Americans or Europeans - they are easily released in a few days' or weeks' time? But when it involves Filipinos, it takes them a long time," he says, referring to the dramatic rescue of the Danish-operated Maersk Alabama and its American captain, Richard Phillips, by the U.S.S. Bainbridge on Sunday...