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...complete-game gem from freshman Zach Hofeld was just what the doctor ordered for the ailing and struggling Crimson, and a 2-1 victory in the second game of the twinbill—the team’s first Ivy win, and its first overall in over three weeks—gave Harvard something from which it could turn its season in a new direction...
...against Northern Iowa in Bradenton, Fla. on Saturday, suffering a 5-3 loss before heading over to Sarasota to lose to Ohio State, 9-7.Harvard split a doubleheader against Lafayette yesterday in Bradenton, taking a victory in the first game on the strength of a one-run, seven-inning gem by senior pitcher Brad Unger, then was blown out by the Leopards, 13-2, in the nightcap.While offensive outbursts from seniors Matt Vance, the team captain, and Tom Stack-Babich—who combined for three home runs and 11 RBI over the weekend—provided the Crimson with enough...
...both terrestrially and by satellite, than we do in India. We just made a deal with a telephone company so that folks in Africa can see the NBA on their cell phones when they're not watching it on TV. I think Africa is going to be the hidden gem...
...Best Films You'll Never See. The Animated Short went to the lamest of the five nominees, an endless (27-minute) rendition of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf; and The Mozart of Pickpockets, about two doofus criminals who adopt an immigrant waif, was outshone by a droll Dutch gem, Tanghi Argentini, and a Danish hospital weepie, At Night. In a year when the best foreign-language films weren't even nominated, the Oscar went to The Counterfeiters, an Austrian drama about (really?) the Holocaust. Points to it, though, for lacing its noble sentiment with the bleak cynicism...
...boys’ bathroom. The way in which he obtains the necessary drugs—memorizing textbook symptoms, then rattling them off to his clueless psychiatrist for a prescription—is as improbable as the advice he dispenses to his insecure classmates. This counseling includes the gem: “Sometimes people say things and mean something else.” As might be expected, Charlie soon becomes a kind of mythic school hero, much to the chagrin of his principal, Mr. Gardner. Gardner (Robert Downey Jr.) is the lone dynamic character of the film. Downey plays the role...