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...Crimson took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second, as Bettinelli opened the inning with a single to right and then stole second. Goldberg followed with a liner down the right field line, giving Harvard runners at the corners. A Montijo grounder allowed Bettinelli to come home with the only run that the Crimson would need...
...outs with a small measure of difficulty. After managing the first out, Brotemarkle allowed a single through the left side and then a bloop single to left that put runners at first and second. But the co-captain buckled down and struck out Kerry Conway and gave up a liner that traveled right into the glove of Kidder in right...
John Mackey roped a liner straight back at Martinez, who appeared to take the ball off his right hand and then lose sight of it. After throwing a few warmup pitches, he and the coaching staff decided he should leave the mound...
...Much of this shadowy violence was probably perpetrated by the state itself and conceivably augured a distant leadership conflict. Some Burma watchers talk of a split between the regime's hard-liners and moderates, a wishful hypothesis that essentially boils down to two people. The so-called moderate is the ageless, reptilian Khin Nyunt, the newly fashioned "Prime Minister General," who is always conspicuously equipped with a sidearm during official visits, even to kindergartens. His rival is Than Shwe, the top general and archetypal hard-liner. To encourage unity, the Burmese military has always promoted loyalty before brains, and Than...
Though Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani is known as a Hindu hard-liner, he now preaches about India's economic vibrancy, not religious nationalism?a reflection of how his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has moved away from the politics of hate. Still, Advani reverted to type at an election rally this month in Ayodhya, where Hindu zealots had torn down a Muslim mosque in 1992 and demanded the restoration of what they said was once a temple to the Hindu god Ram. "We will build a Ram temple at Ayodhya," Advani declared at the rally. "India will...