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...Princeton kicker Derek Javarone stood 41 yards out with a chance to end Penn’s almost three-year-long hold on the Ivy League, everyone from Philadelphia to Cambridge knew what would happen next...
...feel and strong fingers; his playing really makes some of these songs sing, as on “New World Blues.” However, anyone familiar with the latest iteration of the Allman Brothers Band knows that Haynes is capable of much more when paired with young virtuoso Derek Trucks. When the two play, Haynes seems to leave his pentatonic comfort zone a bit to combat Trucks’ sheer ingenuity and natural sense of rhythm and melody. Alone, Haynes and the Mule still impress, but don’t experiment with tempo, feel or melody as much...
Harvard’s current solution to TF teaching (or the lack thereof)? As the Committee on Undergraduate Education reviewed last Wednesday, the College’s facile approach consists of optional mid-term TF evaluations and optional classes at the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. In the long-term, the preliminary report of the ongoing Harvard College Curricular Review suggests creating fellowships for outstanding TFs and making short training courses in evaluating student work mandatory for grad-student teachers. Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences William C. Kirby also believes that instituting a system...
Ultimately, of course, the Sox won the big prize not via voodoo but by assembling a pitching staff deep enough to win a seven-game series. Starters Schilling, Pedro Martinez and Derek Lowe didn't give up an earned run in the last three games, limiting the Cards' "MV3" all-star trio of Albert Pujols, Scott Rolen and Jim Edmonds, collectively .316 during the season, to .133 in the Series. And the Sox bullpen, which for decades had leaked late-inning leads like a faulty tire valve, finally stopped letting the air out. In Game 3 of the ALCS...
...decades, baseball has produced just two mini-dynasties: the 1972-74 Oakland A's and the 1996-2000 New York Yankees. The Red Sox seem particularly vulnerable to market forces: as many as 16 of their players could become free agents this off-season, including pitchers Pedro Martinez and Derek Lowe, both of whom starred in the playoffs; shortstop Orlando Cabrera, who hit safely in 10 straight postseason games; and catcher Jason Varitek, the clubhouse leader...