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...Crimson will try to recover from the loss when they meet up with Brown on the Bears’ home turf this Saturday in Providence...
Buckland said that, although a loss obviously wasn’t what they had wanted, in the circumstances the Dark Blues had put up a strong performance...
...Harvard baseball team’s 5-2 loss yesterday in the Beanpot opener against Boston College, Crimson coach Joe Walsh sent nine different pitchers to the mound in eight innings of work. After Harvard used only three hurlers in last Saturday’s doubleheader with Yale, Walsh saw the need to get the rest of his staff tuned up before this weekend’s crucial series against Brown. “It was good for a lot of guys to get in work and everybody’s ready for the weekend,” Walsh said...
...Halbrook cautions that any new restriction should not be too broadly drawn to include all voluntary commitments, since some individuals seek help after the loss of a loved one or traumatic event in their lives, and there should be a recognition that seeking help is valuable "first step on the road to recovery" for any mental illness. But he said there can be consensus on developing an amendment to the federal standards to address cases like Cho's, provided the voluntary commitment involves a doctor and judge and it is concluded the person is a danger to himself or others...
...Sadly, Kaye's indictment is well founded. But he's also right in his choice of words. People like Cho are indeed only seemingly powerful. In an open culture with cheap and plentiful guns, any fool can kill a lot of people. For all the loss and suffering such a shooting sparks, it is in fact a weak and furtive act, one that masquerades as a gesture of sublime power but is really an act of confusion and cowardice. The very purpose of the murders, Welner explains, is to give the shooter the last word. Unfortunately, what he says when...