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...Harvard’s offense went cold, failing to light up the scoreboard over nearly 10 minutes of play. To make matters worse for the visitors, Yale freshman Devon Rhodes notched three of her game-high eight goals over the next five minutes, putting her team up, 16-9, with 4:39 left...
...Cornell bounced back in the bottom of the inning with another two-run homer, this one off the bat of Ali Tomlinson. The Big Red added a final run in the sixth on a Devon March single...
...supporting cast also provides humorous lines from time to time, especially Devon, played by Nate Torrence, who supplies the group of Kirk’s friends with naïve, child-like interjections which are so wrong for the situation that one can’t help but laugh. Molly’s friend Patty, played by Krysten Ritter, and Kirk’s friend Stainer (T.J. Miller) also have several comedic—albeit tense—stretches of dialogue...
...most part, however, the movie is more uncomfortable than funny, though perhaps not in the way that the filmmakers intended. Cringing feels more appropriate than laughing when Kirk makes a fool of himself in front of Molly’s parents, or when he allows Devon to shave his testicles. The entire film circles around this urge to thrust Kirk into as many awkward situations as possible—which is funny at times, but mostly falls flat. With this goal at its center, the film lacks a cohesiveness which makes the ending seem rather like a hasty attempt...
...Coleman and Damrosch believe that adding livestock to their farm will help the planet? Cattleman Ridge Shinn has the answer. On a wintry Saturday at his farm in Hardwick, Mass., he is out in his pastures encouraging a herd of plump Devon cows to move to a grassy new paddock. Over the course of a year, his 100 cattle will rotate across 175 acres four or five times. "Conventional cattle raising is like mining," he says. "It's unsustainable, because you're just taking without putting anything back. But when you rotate cattle on grass, you change the equation...