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...game with a .301 team batting average, but only managed a single baserunner in the game. “Shelly was unbelievable,” captain Julia Kidder said after the game. “Nothing was going to beat her on that day.” Not content with the one victory, Madick entered the second game in the fifth inning and earned the save in the 4-2 series-clinching win. Madick’s season ended in the Hempstead Regional of the NCAA Tournament. Despite not having her best stuff, the junior pitched every inning for Harvard...
...Philip Roth’s “The Human Stain,” there’s a big line about halfway through in which the main character tries to decide “to be content with something less grandiose than self-banishment.” In so doing he is overwhelmed by the smallness of that which he’s agreeing to, and he realizes how hard it will be “to live with one’s failure in a modest fashion.” How truly shabby it will be to lead...
...like this. They were the surprise upstarts of the Ivy League, dazzling all comers with their offensive prowess and dominating opponents with their defensive supremacy. This was their time to shine—the first round of the NCAA Tournament. But there it was, the once-friendly scoreboard now content to mock the Crimson faithful at the half: Binghamton 1, Harvard 0. The crazies of Cambridge had been silenced. In their place stood the green-and-black Binghamton supporters, filling the air at Ohiri Field with their lusty chants. But there was still the second half. Inspired by a coach...
...definitely think as a racer, the more time you go up against the top, the better you’ll be,” Lofgren said. “But you’re never content with just racing—you want to do well...
...covering the show, he asked "if the country should be happy with this sort of publicity." A few days ago, some legislators had urged media minister Ronald Plasterk to stop the show. While calling the show "inappropriate and unethical," Plasterk said the constitution barred him from interfering with the content of public broadcasting...