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While the outcome is of the deepest concern, the handling of the committee’s decision—especially on such a crucial and precedent-setting issue—was also problematic. The committee was in error for holding a hasty and irregular vote over e-mail, after months of silence regarding HRCF...
This failure proved crucial as the Lions opened up the seventh with a double and a single. Sophomore pitcher Lauren Tanner came in to relieve Crimson starter freshman Michele McAteer, only to hit Columbia’s Courtney Ryan to load the bases with no one out. Tanner subsequently walked the Lions’ Hillary Parsons to force home the go ahead run. Tanner was able to record two strikeouts to keep the Lions from doing further damage...
...case for poker as America's real national game--baseball's seedier older brother--and the story of a local Vegas gambling prince whose murder is a cautionary tale about the price of forbidden pleasures. Positively Fifth Street--the title is poker slang for the last, and often crucial, card in a hand of Texas hold'em--takes us into a mesmerizing mirror world peopled by lost souls for whom a game has become more important than real life. It's a fascinating place to visit, but you wouldn't want to die there. --By Lev Grossman
...more crucial storyline than the aces might be how the freshman No. 2 starters perform—Cornell’s Whitney Smith, Columbia’s Jackie Adelphio and Harvard’s Michelle McAteer. Adelphio had the most effective debut, giving up just one run in five innings despite allowing 11 baserunners. McAteer has yet to be tested in Ivy play, but she has shown promise in nonleague play this season...
Harvard University has big plans for its land in Allston. As a site of future expansion, it will someday soon be the home of research labs, offices, classrooms—even entire graduate schools. This expansion is crucial to meet the changing space demands of the University, which needs new facilities to blossom and remain a leader in research and academia. Because the move to Allston will create jobs in the new labs and offices, stimulate economic activity in the areas and free-up space in Cambridge, the city, state and entire region stand to benefit from Harvard?...