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Lori E. Smith '93-'94 is Associate Editorial Chair of The Crimson. She spent most of 1991 on a kibbutz in northern Israel. "Cricket Bats and Cudgels," in case you were wondering, comes from Tom Stoppard's play "The Real Thing...
...SUMMER LONG, MALE FIELD CRICKETS CAN BE heard singing love songs to lure willing mates. But female crickets are not the only creatures these songs attract. Researchers reporting in Science magazine say they have found a tiny fly of the Ormia genus that can home in on a singing male as quickly as any lovesick cricket. How do they do it? With a hearing organ that works remarkably like a cricket...
Another ad showed an empty cricket ground and advised, "Without reform, South Africa hasn't got a sporting chance." That was a particularly telling shot. One of the sanctions that most pained and angered South Africans over many years was the ban on their participation in international sports, especially cricket and rugby. In the days leading up to the referendum, a rehabilitated South African national cricket team had won a place in the semifinals of the World Cup. Sport-centered South Africans knew that the team, on its first overseas tour in 22 years, would have to pull...
...this bald itinerary is all the romance that Forster and his generation felt for northern Italy. It summons the glory days when the English commandeered the Continent as if it were a feral cricket pitch and great novelists wrote about gentry who were slow to realize that Italy held in its heart secrets beyond their grasp...
...Suez. One symbol of the island's true strength, however, was its array of 15-in. guns that could not turn and fire into the supposedly impenetrable jungle behind them. Another was the 2,000 tennis courts built for the British, along with plenty of polo grounds and cricket pitches. There were also regiments of native servants to polish the boots and serve the pink...