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...four innings for the Crimson, allowing just two hits and one run in her attempt to counter Dartmouth’s momentum. “I really went in there thinking that I was pitching for the team,” Brown said. “We needed to hold them scoreless so that we could come back and score. ”Brown was able to inspire a comeback for Harvard, though it ultimately came too late. Shaw got the action going with a double to right center and junior third baseman Melissa Schellberg, who is also a Crimson...
...until we have a better sense of what compels so many people to duck under the saftey ropes, he worries about rescue policies that might deter those in need from seeking help. And like other critics of pay-for-rescue rules, he argues that if you are to hold people responsible for negligence, then there has to be a very clear notion of competence, yet in most backcountry scenarios there is no absolutely correct way to behave. "Looking at it this way would put you on a slippery slope," he says. "What is a enough knowledge then, and what...
Director Kevin Macdonald’s “State of Play” is an above-average political thriller that features solid but unspectacular performances and an engaging plot that manages to hold our attention for two hours. It is better than mediocre but far from brilliant—and for this we may be thankful. After what feels like an endless procession of movies aimed at either a small critical circle or a mass market, “State of Play” accomplishes what few recent films have been able to do: balance the commercial appeal...
...rise with my red hair, and I eat men like air.” Sylvia Plath’s strong voice projects from a black rectangular machine resting on a table. A dozen people sit in surrounding blue chairs, listening attentively. Some hold anthologies of Sylvia Plath’s poetry and follow along with the poet’s recorded voice. Others merely listen. On Friday afternoons in the George Edward Woodberry Poetry Room in Lamont Library, visitors gather to appreciate the recordings of prominent poets as part of REEL TIME, one of the new programs recently installed under...
...necessarily. Many colleges keep reevaluating students' aid packages throughout the year. For instance, Rod Frantz, who works in marketing and public relations in Washington, applied for extra aid this spring for his son, Charles, who is a sophomore at Grinnell. Frantz had put a full-time marketing job on hold two years ago to self-finance a pet project. By the time he was ready to get back into marketing, the economy had tanked, and he says he has been searching "madly" for work these past few months as his savings and unemployment benefits are running out. Even though...