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...been a very good college journalist, managing editor of what was arguably the best college paper in the country,” David L. Halberstam ’55 told a Columbia University audience two years ago. “I knew what I didn’t know and what I needed to learn...
...just made it more consistent, more fluid.”Fluid enough to have a .732 slugging percentage to go along with a solid .323 batting average, showing that the extra time off paired with superb coaching led to a skyrocketing improvement on offense.“We always knew that she was good—that she would pull through for us in opportune moments,” captain second baseman Julia Kidder said. “Obviously we didn’t expect what she’s done this season thus far.”And while...
...quickly settled into a rhythm after allowing three two-out doubles in the first.“There’s nine innings in a game,” he said. “You can’t let two first-inning runs get to you. I knew our offense would come up with a lot of runs, especially in game four of an Ivy League weekend.”BROWN 5, HARVARD 2Brown third baseman Robert Papenhause blew open a 2-2 game in the bottom of the sixth inning with a two-out, three-run home...
...cunning. He always felt how things would turn out - and that was why he was always capable of turning the situation his way. August 1991 was no exception: he had instinctive grasp of things. He felt instinctively what he had to do to win. At the time, he knew as instinctively that he had to apologize publicly for the death of the three young boys who died in the August confusion. They were given heroes' burial, and Yeltsin made a moving and appealing apology to the people. 'Forgive me, your President, for having failed to save your children.' The country...
...There was nothing heroic left about Yeltsin. In fact, there has never been. There was nothing heroic about his climbing that tank - he knew damn well he was safe; it was a gesture to seal his victory over those inept putschists. He just found an appropriate moment that worked for him to do that...