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...Harvard. In the second game of Tuesday’s twinbill, captain Harry Douglas knocked a single through the infield in the bottom of the ninth to take the series victory.The win marked the Crimson’s fourth walk-off win in its last eight Ivy League games.“I think that we’ve been a pretty gritty club,” Stack-Babich said. “We’re getting big hits when we need them and doing just enough to win.”Add a number of come-from-behind...
...rising funnyman Simon H. Rich '06-'07 doing a little bit of standup comedy on Collegehumor.com. The former president of the 'Poon and current SNL writer (the youngest ever, we hear) muses on the providential dealings behind Octomom, the California woman who gave birth to eight children in January (and may be getting a reality TV show...
...lying on his back in the lot, in spot number twenty-eight (because even at night, some things were meant to have order), watching the stars. He was discovering that the stars have no order, or at least none immediately discernable. He knew, of course, that there must be some pattern. Everything in nature, no matter how obscure, no matter how frequently, participated in the world’s rhythm. He believed deeply in such things. But just now he was feeling very small. For being unable to find the rhythm in something so vast. But he was comforted...
...firing rocket launchers. You can outpace them if you're a fast, high-decked container. Otherwise you'll have to slow down or risk being blown up. Then they'll bring out their ladders, climb onto your deck, guns in hand, and it's all over in seven to eight minutes." Describing the passage through pirate-infested waters, he adds, "Every few minutes there's a false alarm, and the stress levels are stratospheric. The 37 hours it took to transit the critical 10- to 12-mile stretch was the longest time of my life." (See pictures of Somali pirates...
...latest lightning rod for anti-Chinese sentiment is Hanoi's plan to allow subsidiaries of the Aluminum Corporation of China (Chinalco) to mine bauxite ore in Vietnam's Central Highlands. Bauxite is a key ingredient in aluminum, which China needs to fuel its construction industry. Vietnam has an estimated eight billion tons of high-quality bauxite, the third-largest reserves in the world. The environmental cost of extracting the mineral, however, can be high. Strip mining is efficient, but scars the land and bauxite processing releases a toxic red sludge that can seep into water supplies if not adequately contained...