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After a week full of postponed play, Harvard softball (10-15, 3-3 Ivy) competed in its first Ivy League home game against Columbia (12-18, 3-3 Ivy) yesterday at Soldiers Field. Originally scheduled for Saturday, the doubleheader continued through conditions that felt more like February than April. 40 degree temperature, wind, and rain made for messier-than-average defense, as the Crimson and the Lions combined for 10 errors on the day. “It’s muddy out there, it’s hard to get your footing, it’s gross outside...
...just weren’t in the right spot defensively,” Tillman said. “We weren’t able to hold onto the ball as well as we’d like. They won faceoffs, so all of a sudden we just felt like they had the ball for a really long time, and when you give a team like that so many opportunities, they’re going to generate some big shots.” In the second half, the Crimson found out just how valuable faceoff wins can be, as Smith recovered...
...string of recent convictions and imprisoning of activists apparently designed to stifle even the slightest sign of dissent ahead of the Games. Even China's huge online population of some 230 million, which is often cited as the country's most powerful force for greater openness, has felt the heat. Thousands of websites have been shuttered while government controls and blocking of sites outside China has intensified significantly in recent months. As Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International put it in a report released on April 1, despite promises by both the International Olympic Committee and Chinese officials...
...very much felt that there was an adult in charge after the turmoil of the last five years,” Putnam said...
...study compared two groups of 100 terminally-ill children—one was studied from 1990 to 1997 and another from 1997 to 2004—and found that parents in the latter group reported they felt more prepared for their child’s death and that their children suffered less...