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...recent action, the Crimson rebounded from a 5-1 deficit with a four-run ninth inning, capped by junior outfielder Scott Carmack's three-run homer before eventually losing to Rhode Island in eleven innings Wednesday...
...second of two games at Virginia, a three-run homer by Cavalier right fielder Meaghan Young in the bottom of the sixth inning extended Virginia's lead to eight runs and ended the game on account of the mercy rule...
Down 2-0 in the seventh and final inning, the Crimson mounted a late comeback as junior Mairead McKendry drilled a solo homer to pull Harvard to within...
Never mind, for the moment, that this definition could, with a little tweaking of emphases, apply equally well to Homer's Odyssey, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The R.W.A. is not indulging in literary criticism here but rather offering its 8,200 members a blueprint for success in the contemporary marketplace. Because the people who find the keenest emotional satisfaction in romance novels tend to be their authors and publishers. More than half the mass-market paperback fiction titles sold annually in the U.S. are romance novels. Factor in hardback sales...
...writer to create and re-create for her a vision of a fictional world that is free of moral ambiguity, a larger-than-life domain in which such ideals as courage, justice, honor, loyalty and love are challenged and upheld." Free of moral ambiguity? So much, then, for Homer, Shakespeare and Austen...