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...Everyone thought he threw harder and sharper than he had since [an April 1 win against Princeton],” Brown said, referring to a jaw-dropping Ivy League debut in which the freshman struck out 11. “Adam’s a tremendous competitor. He wanted to put behind last week against Dartmouth. But then a couple of things happen...
When asked, Walsh didn’t have an explanation for the struggles of Shawn Haviland, the ace who had been sporting a 0.73 ERA in Ivy League play, nor Adam Cole, the precocious freshman who had fanned 11 Tigers in his Ancient Eight debut. A week after a 149-pitch, 10-inning masterpiece, Haviland gave up seven earned on 11 hits in the first game, while Cole faltered in a seven-run Princeton sixth during the nightcap, surrendering four runs on four hits...
...editors: I am writing to refute the arguments of Charles Drummond (“Girl Interrupted,” comment, April 26). Kaavya Viswanathan, in her debut novel, has not taken “few plot points and a borrowed phrase every 10 pages,” but something much more egregious than that. She has taken the plot, prose, and language from another novel and with no reinvention whatsoever tried to pass them off as her own. Yes, I acknowledge that we live in a super-competitive age, but there are limits to everything. Let?...
...follows a murderous epileptic as he begins killing his stuffy, embarrassing family. Oh, and he’s in love with his sister, his first victim is his blind mother, and his second victim is his mentally disabled epileptic brother. It’s an audacious directorial debut, particularly for Italy in 1965, still trying to stitch itself together after the war and, cinematically, completely in the thrall of neo-realism, which was just beginning to peter out. Along with Bernardo Bertolucci’s debut, released the year before, “Fists” heralded a new period...
Pussycat Dolls “Beep” Dir. Benny Boom The Pussycat Dolls’ M.O. for “Beep” is similar to that for their debut single “Don’t Cha”; a rapper—then Busta Rhymes, now Will.I.Am—acting as a sidekick to the lead (read: only) singer Nicole, while the other five Dolls decorate the space behind her with booty-shaking, body rolls, and yet more booty-shaking. The video gradually works its way towards the hot dance scenes, first showing the five...