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Cornell and Columbia split their Ivy opening doubleheader last weekend with Sterman winning the duel of aces in the first game. Each pitcher came back in relief in the second game with Buehler getting the upper hand...
...some cases the relationship between patient and caregiver can take on the character of a duel, wits on one side, willpower on the other. Eleanor Cooney's mother was brilliant and glamorous, a successful novelist who once won a beauty contest judged by Frank Sinatra. In Death in Slow Motion (HarperCollins; 251 pages), Cooney chronicles her mother's gradual, grinding dissolution--"death's warm-up act," Cooney calls it--describing the hallucinations and the circular conversations, the fits of rage and neediness that wreck her own life and get her mother kicked out of her nursing home...
...contest was a pitcher’s duel for seven innings, as Brotemarkle and Fuller threw one shutout inning after another. McClain changed that, and the Crimson’s hopes of winning, with one swing...
Before Hayes, Harvard’s weight programs lacked structure. Team coaching staffs had the duel burden of instructing their players on the field...
...Bergman-Pinchbeck duel ultimately came down to a third-set tiebreak. Pinchbeck, aided by a strong home crowd that had gathered to watch, once again jumped to a quick lead at 3-0. Bergman could not catch up and lost the tiebreaker 7-4, giving UNC the match...