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...premier hitter in this league.” DUQUESNE 6, HARVARD 4 The Crimson made more mistakes than it could afford against the Dukes, committing five errors in its first loss of the season. “All we can do is get on the field with dirt and grass and hit some ground balls. “ said Harvard manager Joe Walsh of mending the teams defensive lapses. “It’s everybody’s first time out...It will improve.” Dukes starter Jeff Naughton made Harvard pay for its defensive follies...
Modern American culture was dawning too. Walt Whitman and Nathaniel Hawthorne had started work on Leaves of Grass and The Scarlet Letter, respectively, and Herman Melville was preparing to write Moby Dick. Henry David Thoreau, laying the groundwork for environmentalism, was altogether disgusted by the new Zeitgeist and gimcracks. "I delight to come to my bearings," he writes in Walden, which he began in the late '40s, "not walk in procession with pomp and parade, in a conspicuous place ... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sit thoughtfully while it goes by. What...
...children's hospitals in Poland. The event took place at one of Ireland's best-known concert venues, adorned with posters of Van Morrison and U2. Polish and Irish performers shared the stage as young Poles swilled Guinness and inducted their Irish friends into the delights of Bison Grass Vodka...
...night in their barn--I trust they don't use chemicals. But the Blomgrens don't grow fruit for the CSA. They buy it from other local growers, and most of them use sprays because of the humidity. Ted's hens were free-range--they strutted around eating the grass behind his house. But pastured chickens still require some grain feed, and the grain Ted bought was mostly conventionally grown, industrially processed corn...
...testing, they create an entire set of clubs tailored to each player's specifications. The following morning the golfers are met at the nearby Aviara golf course with a monogrammed bag and their new set of custom-fit clubs, all ready for 18 holes of green-grass testing under the watchful eye of Peterson. After lunch, the club technicians get back to work, tackling any lie, loft or shaft adjustments that the round reveals...