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...century is almost unremittingly dark. The mayor's scythe sweeps through the book as Mak tours Verdun, Guernica, Auschwitz, Stalingrad, Dresden, Chernobyl, Sarajevo. With an itinerary like that, there are predictably few joyful moments to be had. The book is filled instead with a sort of dreadful comedy that drove Samuel Beckett and others to see Europe as a theater of the absurd: the jaunty optimism of soldiers setting off to World War I (home by Christmas!), the apocalyptic hope of the survivors (the war to end all wars!), and the heartbreaking irony of victims unaware (one letter from...
...came up big for the team,” Allard said. “She’s made some great adjustments at the plate and it paid off. She drove in a number of game-winning runs...
...Brown drove home Bock for an insurance run in the seventh. That was all Black would need to capture the win, pitching four innings and giving up one run. Junior Amanda Watkins and Roberts closed out the Harvard...
...early lead and closer Steffan Wilson could not nail down the save in the Crimson’s second 10-9 loss in the span of four days. Once again, the Crimson brought a 9-7 lead into the final frame, but its bullpen failed to preserve the win.Byrne drove in three runs and Stack-Babich and rookie Dan Zailskas (2-for-4) tallied two RBI apiece. “We showed real strong offense down there,” freshman pitcher Max Perlman said. “We were hitting good pitching. [Our] pitching still needs a little work...
...Obviously, Bishaq didn't like me, either. On our second to last night, he drove 100 miles out of our way to a town called Biltine, persuading me with the promise of a "great hotel with plenty of cold beer," only to disappear once we arrived and leave me to discover that there was, in fact, no hotel in Biltine and I was sleeping in the street...