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Junior third baseman Erin Halpenny pounded a double down the left-field line to plate senior Beth Sabin—who had reached on a double of her own—and sophomore Lauren Brown. Brown had to fashion a nifty hook slide to evade the tag at the plate...
...dark memory will occlude the band's sunnier disposition - May 18 marks 25 years since Joy Division's lead singer Ian Curtis hanged himself. His suicide ended the short but revolutionary run of New Order's precursor. Formed in 1977 by working-class Mancunians Curtis, Sumner, bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris, Joy Division embraced the social anger and energy of punk and took it in a different direction - improvising with electronic sound and synthesizers. The band was on the cusp of commercial success, but Curtis, an epileptic who was tortured by his failing marriage, took a sad shortcut...
...know a senator, give them a call. They'll say our bill can pass in the House. Tell them, okay, your bill is fine, but the House bill is better, and I want the House bill. Particularly if you know Democrats. Don't let them get off the hook by hiding behind one House and the other is adjourned. We can do anything we need to do to pass any bill that we need to pass...
...pines for hook-ups while condemning the culture they represent; he blasts the classroom shortcuts of undergraduates while reminiscing about his own corner-cutting; he faults Harvard for taking too many upper-middle-class, white Northeastern males—a demographic he conveniently fits into himself...
...single out Harvard for lambasting? It certainly isn’t the only school with lazy students and lax grading, random hook-ups and social cliques. And college isn’t the only milieu in which a culture of unscrupulous ambition is endemic...