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...lead. The second quarter was Harvard's best defensively, despite a 73-yard touchdown run of Brown back Mike Malan. The Crimson limited Brown's offense to 10 plays on its other three drives of the quarter. On the first stop, Balestracci and junior lineman Ryan Fitzgerald teamed up to stop Malan, and then on third down cornerback Willie Alford knocked away a high lob intended for Campbell. The other two stops of the quarter would be much of the same--shutting down the run, then silencing Webber, who was left with negative passing yardage for the quarter...
...usual suspects combining for the stop again, as Balestracci took down Malan on first down, then Fitzgerald and LaHaie batted down Webber's passes on second and third down, respectively. On fourth down, the Crimson pass rush forced Webber to make an errant throw...
After the first Morris touchdown, the Harvard defense summarily gave up a 40-yard pass to Brown tight end David Brookman. But the Crimson shut down Brown from there, as tackles from junior linebacker Mike Cataldo and junior corner Andy Fried shut down Malan, and Fitzgerald tipped yet another Webber pass on third down to kill the Brown drive...
TALK, TALK, TALK Forget about talk being cheap. Helen Fitzgerald, the author of The Grieving Teen: A Guide for Teenagers and Their Friends (Fireside), believes talk is golden for an adolescent who has suffered a loss. "Talk, talk, talk," Fitzgerald advises teens. "Talk it out of your system. Find people you can talk to about what has happened. Be together. Don't isolate yourself from the love and caring of family and friends." Fitzgerald writes from experience. Her first husband died suddenly, leaving her with four children, two of them teens. She went on to become a pioneer in setting...
...topic is too frightening or difficult for Fitzgerald. She demystifies hospitals and funerals--and even tackles such sensitive questions as, What does a dead body look like? Fitzgerald has a warm, soothing tone and writes to adolescents directly and with no condescension. She is a great believer in teen-grief support groups: if one doesn't exist, start one. Her advice is practical: "If it is more than you can bear to think about right now, that's O.K. Read a book. Take a walk. Surf the Internet. Play basketball. Go to the movies. Paint a picture. Write a poem...