Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contrast to playing the national pastime for a full season in the cold weather of New England, the Harvard batsmen will play eleven games in eight days under the warm Florida sun. The journey South is an annual event for the baseball team, which traditionally ventures South before embarking on their Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League schedule...
Coming off from last year's dream season, the 1991 Harvard women's lacrosse team has a tough act to follow. Finishing the season with an overall record of 15-0, capturing the Ivy League crown (which Harvard has had at least its share of for the last eleven years) and coming back to defeat the University of Maryland in an 8-7 win to capture the NCAA tournament title, 1990's performance leaves one question for this year's team to answer: can it be done again...
When John Cheever died in 1982, he left a legacy of 12 books. Eleven cannot fail to enhance his reputation; one is likely to erode it. The Journals of John Cheever is not scheduled to be published by Knopf until November, but four long excerpts have already appeared in the New Yorker. They have occasioned more chatter and speculation than anything the author published in his lifetime, because they reveal a private face entirely unlike the mask that Cheever contrived for public view...
...relax," he begins, and that prescription is followed through the 1940s and '50s. Occasional grace notes occur, but hangovers and revulsion are usually the order of the day: "I feel sick, disgusted with myself, despairing and obscene. I have a drink to pull myself together at half past eleven and begin my serious drinking at half past four." And: "Evening comes or even noon and some combination of nervous tensions obscures my memories of what whiskey costs me in the way of physical and intellectual well-being. I could very easily destroy myself. It is ten o'clock...
...Eleven Marines were killed in the fighting around Umm Hujul, the first known American battle dead of the war (a number of flyers have been listed as missing in action). An AC-130 gunship with a crew of 14 was shot down over Kuwait, and a male and a female soldier on a "transport mission" near Khafji were missing. The woman, Army Specialist Melissa Rathbun-Nealy, might be the first female American soldier ever to become a POW (though some nurses have been captured in previous wars...