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Cross a mist-shrouded mountain pasture pitted with craters, past four dead horses eviscerated by scavengers, over a trampled barbed wire fence and you are in Kosovo. A thin trail leads down through light green scrub oak to a rutted dirt road, which in turn winds deeper into the cleft of a narrow valley. The mighty crash of 110-mm mortar rounds resounds from the hillsides, interspersed with the delicate crack of Kalashnikov rifles. Wisps of munitions smoke mix with the low mountain clouds spreading over the Dukadjin plains in the distance. About a mile and a half in stands...
...understand how, it helps to know two facts familiar to every Baltimore fan. The Orioles have the third highest payroll ($80 million) in major league baseball. And they have the American League's worst record. That's the kind of capitalist contradiction that Fidel Castro loves to exploit. Dirt poor but sports crazed, Cuba boasts one of the world's richest lodes of baseball talent--and proved it in Baltimore, as its stars savaged Oriole pitchers for 18 hits. (Mercifully, the Cubans, who use aluminum bats at home, had only a month to train with wooden ones...
With the O'Donnell field faithful on their feet and the Tigers hoping for one last ninth-inning rally, the Harvard senior hurler reared back and got the Princeton rookie to strike out on a pitch in the dirt to give the Crimson its third consecutive Ancient Eight title...
With the O'Donnell field faithful on their feet and the Tigers hoping for one last ninthinning rally, the Harvard senior hurler reared back and got the Princeton rookie to strike out on a pitch in the dirt to give the Crimson its third consecutive Ancient Eight title...
...Perfect for Commencement-- a process which, for many of us, is dialectically invested with both anticipation and dread--is once again underway. The squadron of landscape-artists has been unleashed; like Stravinsky, they aspire to create a magnum opus of the season's rituals. With ardor, with bags of dirt, they have already begun to transform the Yard from a relatively pleasant, serene meadow into a confusion of cordons, chemical grass simulacra and bare patches of earth hideous to behold. Harvard subsists on tradition: the Yard is made repellent each spring and this one is no different. Why bother...