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...start—or an out more representative of her rookie season.“Strikeouts, that has kind of been my pattern the last few years,” Brown said. “Last year I was definitely a strikeout pitcher, but I didn’t expect it going into college because the competition is better. But I guess I just spin the ball, and if I don’t think about it, it’s a lot easier.”Brown’s 211 strikeouts—a total that broke...
...Upsets like water polo’s victory over Brown are thrilling, but not if you are rooting for the favorite. Instead, there can be just as much beauty in watching a team you support and expect to win go out and show its superior talent in bringing home victory. That is what the softball players did on their home field in the Ivy League Championship against the Quakers. Shelly Madick ’08 threw a no-hitter in the first game, then got the save in the second, shutting Penn down when it had the winning...
There are some things Harvard students have come to expect in the month of May: improved weather, online TV episodes during reading period, and lots of e-mail spam regarding senior sales. One thing that should be added to this list of May mainstays is the presence of the Harvard sailing team in national championship regattas. After the women’s squad’s one-year hiatus from the national championship, the Crimson’s co-ed and women’s teams qualified for all three of their national affairs, with the contests taking place...
...Crimson in two low-scoring games. “It was a very emotional day on Sunday—last home games, Senior Day,” Vertovez said. “After we lost that first game, it was kind of a shocker. We didn’t expect to lose that first one and in the second we put too much pressure on ourselves and that’s when things fell apart. It’s not like we gave it to them on Sunday, they played better than us so they took...
...less in the same place. China, which could inflict considerable economic pain on Pyongyang by cutting off trade and fuel shipments, now must decide whether or not, in truth, a nuclear North is against its "core interests." And it must do so with the world very much watching. Expect a senior envoy from Beijing to fly to Pyongyang at some point in the next few weeks or so for a conversation that will be anything but polite...