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Just two days before putting its Red Rolfe Division title on the line against Dartmouth, Harvard took a mid-week trip to Providence, R.I., matching up against a Friar squad that had lost five of its last...
Junior catcher Jason Keck, who went 3-for-4 with three RBI and four runs scored and smacked his first homer of the 1998 season, joined Forst (2-for-5, RBI) in providing the ammunition that roughed up three Friar hurlers, including loser Brett Donovan...
...seemed to Castro that signs of nonconformity and a search for new ideas were infecting the populace. Little by little, people were going back to church. So he spent 23 hours talking to a Brazilian Dominican friar, Frei Betto. The subsequent book, Fidel and Religion, became a national best seller. Here was the apostle of Marxism expounding on his Catholic upbringing and attitudes toward religion. He recalled his devout mother and his rigorous parochial education. He had been baptized and was taught biblical history and Catholic catechism. At his upper-class Jesuit high school he absorbed the determination and discipline...
...deceiving us. She doth protest too much, we occasionally thought, when she complained about the attentions of the paparazzi. When, after so many years of burning extravagant candles at both ends, she died at last so squalidly in that underpass, some of us for a moment thought, as the Friar thought about Romeo and Juliet, "These violent delights have violent ends...
...touched us--that's the thing. As the Friar went on to remark, "So light a foot will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint." She was so lovely to look at. She appeared to be so shy. Like all our children, she seemed to float above the drab and everlasting flintiness of our ordinary lives. Time and again we found ourselves ready to forgive her, just as in the end we always give in and send our wayward offspring another check to pay the telephone bill; and we did it as always with a shrug of the shoulders that...