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Kicking off spring break in the warm weather is what most college students dream of. For the Harvard softball squad, playing six games in four days in Georgia is hardly a vacation, but it is the next best thing. The Crimson finished second in the Mercer Easter Classic, and junior Bailey Vertovez earned Ivy Player of the Week honors for her efforts. Vertovez went 7-for-12 at the plate, played an error-free three games at shortstop, and was the starting pitcher against Mercer, giving up just two runs in four innings...
...Crimson’s only loss of the Mercer Easter Classic came in its fourth and final game—the championship game. The host squad earned a shutout victory in an eight-inning affair...
...Still, this Easter I came home with a glimmer of hope: at some point, eventually, violence, whether it is the Mafia's or the IRA's, does burn itself out. People get tired of fighting, they settle for less, or put down their guns when they realize it just isn't worth...
...lingering doubt I had that the conflict was truly over disappeared when I saw the Europa. There wasn't even a car bomb barrier out front. The place was full of families, many of them American, coming home for Easter. Ex-IRA foot soldiers out front offered driving tours of the old IRA battlefields. Who would ever have thought Northern Ireland would be turned into a theme park...
...This year's IRA parade on Easter morning was one of the most anodyne, sentimentalized events I've ever seen, made up mostly of little boys and old men not even bothering to pose as veterans. A half a dozen marchers carried wooden rifles, but the Republican banners were furled - on orders from the IRA's leadership. Armored police Land Rovers were parked inconspicuously on side streets, but they were there to protect the marchers from Protestants rather than keep a watch on them...