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...plate in Meehan.While Meehan’s contributions to the Crimson’s efforts throughout his career have predominantly been his high batting average and on-base percentage, as well as his solid defense at second base, on Saturday he eschewed his usual weapons of choice in favor of the long ball. On a 2-1 pitch from Cornell’s David Rochefort, the lefty Meehan pulled the ball deep to right field and out of the park for Harvard’s first of two walk-off shots on the day.“That was huge...
...more than just a viable competitor against Brown again next Saturday in Norton, Mass.“They’re a rival and they need to be knocked off,” Harvard coach Erik Farrar said. “We definitely would like to return the favor in their temporary home pool next Saturday.” HARVARD 23, CONNECTICUT COLLEGE 4The Crimson ended the weekend on a strong note by pummeling the Camels, 23-4. Freshman Monica Zdrojewski led the offensive charge with five goals that were complemented by co-captain Devon MacLaughlin’s three...
...nanny-state scold, an litist Big Brother lecturing us about inflating our tires and reading to our kids. We elected a President, not a life coach, and we might not like elected officials' challenging our right to be couch potatoes. Obama's aides seem to favor nudges that preserve free choice over heavy-handed regulation, an approach Thaler and Sunstein, the co-authors of Nudge, call "libertarian paternalism." But it's still paternalism, and Sunstein will have the power to put it into action. The idea of public officials, even well-meaning ones, trying to engineer our private behavior...
...first half, offer an interesting insight into where the band might go next. “Dragon Queen” flirts a little too much with disco beats and is the sort of song that fans of the band may have feared would be produced by abandoning guitars in favor of keyboards. Fortunately, the closing duo, “Hysteric” and “Little Shadow,” ensure the album closes on a high. The former is surprisingly close in sound to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ career highlight “Maps...
...street protests late last year from old, new and future Gurkha recruits. Dahal promptly reneged, announcing in a February meeting with a visiting delegation of British parliamentarians that the recruitment of Nepali men into their forces had bolstered ties between the two nations, and that he was not in favor of stopping recruitments. But behind closed doors, Nepalese officials still squirm at the thought of their countrymen being paid for fighting another nation's war. "This is an obnoxious practice," said one official from Nepal's Foreign Ministry, who requested anonymity because he is not authorized to speak...