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After a tense, eight inning pitching duel, BC finally broke through to score and gain a split in the double-header. The Harvard players were satisfied, though. Heading into an Ivy League showdown with top-ranked Yale this Saturday, yesterday's performance was more than enough...
Harvard senior Christine Carr and BU senior Shannon Downey engaged one another in a terrific pitcher's duel, silencing the potent bats of each team for 12 whole innings...
...southern province following the death of two progovernment commanders, reportedly in a shoot-out. Capping months of wrangling, Tajik sources say, Sangak Safarov and Faizali Saidov went for their guns during an argument over the fate of refugees seeking to return from Afghanistan. Authorities fear the deadly duel could spark reprisals among the chieftains' followers and embolden Islamic and nationalist insurgents to reignite the fighting that has already claimed more than 20,000 lives...
...fans slowly filed in for the big BU-Harvard duel, the name-calling was already beginning. At center ice, a Crimson fan wearing a Bob Sweeney-lettered shirt tried to match wits with a cluster of about 10 Terrier fans; sad to say, the BU bums were outdueling him. "Let's go Radcliffe!" and "R-P-I!" screamed the crazed Terriers, and after swallowing my pride I condescended to meet the ringleader, one Tony Biscardi, a BU alum and first-year grad student...
...last century, for example, there were leaders of academia in this country who opposed allowing the infiltration of Darwin's ideas into American education, out of a misplaced fear that the theory of natural selection undermined belief in a Creator. And until the dramatic court-room duel between William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow, evolution was still contestable subject matter for the classroom...