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...different sort of presence,” junior Bailey Vertovez says. “It’s just that she goes in there knowing that her team is going to get the job done behind her if she can get the pitches that will get a ground ball or a flyout or even a strikeout. She just has this sort of demeanor about her where we know that we’re going to get a win after she’s throwing.” Of course, it helps that Madick is fully healed from a shoulder injury...
...settle the peace, not continue the war. Yet some of the senator’s recent comments suggest he has far less of an interest in peace than in popularity. In an Associated Press interview from July 2007, Obama suggested that even the likelihood of genocide was insufficient grounds for retaining an American presence in Iraq. “If that’s the criteria by which we are making decisions on the deployment of U.S. forces, then by that argument you would have 300,000 troops in the Congo right now—where millions have been slaughtered...
...Isn’t FAS business, by definition, “ground to a halt” if quorum is not reached at FAS meetings? Not in today’s modern world, of course—faculty members are not involved in most of the school’s day-to-day operations. But University Professor Stanley Hoffmann had it right when he responded to Smith by comparing the messy behemoth that is FAS central administration to the bureaucratic morass of his home country, France...
...consecutive years, the Harvard varsity lightweights have taken silver to Cornell’s gold at the IRA national championships in June. The emerging Cornell-Harvard rivalry gained ground last year, as the two lightweight squads traded No. 1 and No. 2 rankings throughout spring 2007. Then Cornell snagged its second-straight national crown in Camden, N.J., edging Harvard by just over one second in a dramatic grand final.On Saturday, the Crimson again found itself trailing defending champion Cornell, this time in Harvard’s season-opening dual race on Lake Cayuga.The Crimson’s three varsity eights...
...breakout offensive weekend and received two solid outings from veteran starters Shawn Haviland and Brad Unger, but a heartbreaking walk-off loss in the weekend finale left it with a sour taste in its mouth—and a split that won’t help it gain ground in the Ivy League standings. Hot Harvard bats paced the Crimson to a 9-5 win in the first of two games, but the nightcap made a hero of the Bulldog catcher P.J. Gorynski and goats of the Harvard bullpen: two innings after Unger departed with a four-run lead, Gorynski...