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...Barney Frank is fooled. Her latest endeavor was to support a bill that sets limits on lobbying for presidential pardon. This is absurdity in such a pure state that nobody except the New York Post has even bothered to touch it, instead choosing to marvel at such a rare gem with Bill O’Reilly-esque glee...
Crimson junior Ben Crockett pitched a gem, going all nine innings and striking out seven in a losing effort. Harvard trailed 1-0 and was down to its final out in the bottom of the seventh inning when Hendricks delivered for Harvard again, driving in Lopez, who pinch ran for Hordon, on a base-hit between first and second base. The clutch single went for naught, unfortunately, after Erik Rico's triple put Cornell ahead in the ninth inning...
...Saturday-almost two years to the day after he dominated Columbia as a freshman-Crocket returned to the scene of his first victory to repeat history by hurling another complete-game gem against the Lions...
...hidden gem on the line could be Ingram, who has 18 goals and 21 assists on the season. With those numbers, she could be top scorer on a number of other teams, and if Botterill and Shewchuk play to their potential, it will leave Ingram open with plenty of opportunities to bury the puck...
...this gem, the scientist and noted essayist trains a wry wit and a highly perceptive eye on his two-plus decades of observing baboon behavior in Kenya. Sidesplitting vignettes about monkey politics alternate with equally hilarious tales of misadventure on the backroads of East and Central Africa. Sciencephobes needn't be worried: there's nary a page of neuroendocrinology in the book. A supporting cast of tribal misfits, postcolonial weirdos and marginally psychotic truck drivers will keep you chuckling from start to finish...