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...dinger off freshman reliever Dan Berardo in the seventh inning. Freshman Ben Sestanovich—who has been stellar out of the bullpen—was given the starting nod for the Crimson. He lasted 4.2 innings, gave up six earned runs, and was credited with the loss. SAN DIEGO 18, HARVARD 2San Diego jumped on Harvard early and the second game of the series ended as a decisive blowout. “Going to San Diego was seeing a team that can beat you a lot of different ways,” Walsh said. “Very aggressive...
...fine a point on it, Stop-Loss is a movie about getting screwed. By your own government, no less - which you have served loyally and bravely...
...There is no blinking the fact that Stop-Loss is a relentlessly grim film. Every movie so far made about the war in Iraq - both fictional and documentary - has failed at the box office, and there is no reason to suppose that this one's fate will be any different. It is not just that we don't want to confront the costs and consequences of that conflict when we are out for a good time at the movies. It is also that we don't want to acknowledge that this war has largely been fought by a victim class...
...Campaign Comeback Hillary and Bill Clinton might be "Ready to Rumble" the Democratic Party right into a loss in November [March 17]. Her plan is to convince the Democratic leadership that Barack Obama is unelectable. But if she fails to get the nomination, she might end up persuading swing voters to support John McCain in the general election, possibly dooming us to another four years of war in Iraq. Maybe then she could become part of the Republican strategy team. Paula Rantz, Palo Alto, Calif...
...seduce, to reinvent, to torment - are what fuel A Partisan's Daughter, Louis de Bernières's quiet yet moving new novel set in London in 1979, during the strikebound Winter of Discontent. As recounted by Chris years later, it's an aching tale of love and loss in which the protagonists embody the profound but fragile relationships strangers can build and the pain of intimacy corrupted. "A previous draft was about sexual obsession, and it left a rather bad taste in the mouth," says De Bernières, who grew up in Surrey, just south of London...