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Leading the way for Harvard at the plate has been senior center fielder Andrew Huling. Huling--a leading candidate for Ivy League Player of the Year honors--has been spectacular both with the bat and the glove this season. He leads the team with a .422 batting average, five home runs and 50 RBI, and has routinely made great plays in the field...
Junior first baseman Erik Binkowski has also showed strong play this season. Binkowski is hitting an impressive .320, to go along with three home runs and 30 RBI. He has made a habit of coming up with key hits in crucial situations for Harvard...
From a ridge on Mount Holyoke--the mountain, not the college--Tracy Kidder looks down at Northampton, Mass., near where he lives. He has just written an impressionistic portrait of this old New England community, Home Town (Random House; 349 pages; $25.95). From his perch, he dreams up a lofty introduction that concludes, "...the cornfields are a dream of perfect order, and the town seems entirely coherent, self-contained, a place where a person might live a whole life and consider it complete, a tiny civilization all its own." Then, beguiled by a sentimental image, he adds, "The town below...
...author's great gift, in fact, is for looking at his subjects straight on. He did this impressively in The Soul of a New Machine (1981), about the development of a supermini-computer, and in House (1985), about the jostling interchanges among architect, builders and buyers of a private home...
...wary. Over the past few months, Stansky has lightened his tech load, from 25% to 20%, replacing Intel and Lucent at the top of his portfolio with Citigroup and Time Warner [parent of TIME's publisher]. He still has Microsoft, MCI WorldCom, AOL and Cisco (along with GE, Home Depot, Wal-Mart and Merck) at the core, a strategy that's working; so far, he's still beating the S&P, with a 12% return this year...