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...single in the second and a lead-off solo home run in the fourth. Fellow rookie Caitlin Bowers drove in two with her third-inning single to center. In the fifth, Yale brought in all three of its runs on only two hits, capitalizing on Crimson mistakes to narrow the margin to one run. The first run scored on two consecutive Harvard errors. After a defensive switch, a single to right drove in two unearned runs.The Crimson also took advantage of mistakes when a walk came around to score on a throwing error for the final run of the game...
...close throughout the first half of the race as both Harvard and Brown jumped out to a quick start. The Crimson made its move in the second 500 meters to take the lead and hoped also to control the pace of the race. Its efforts were rewarded with a narrow, two-seat advantage about 1000 meters in. However, early in the third 500 meters, as the Bears made several pushes to pull even and walk away, it became evident that the strength and energy Harvard expended to gain the lead at the 1000-meter mark came at a high price.Fatigue...
...under David Ayer's direction it's still got Ellroy's arrhythmic pulse, careering from one high-caliber confrontation to another. The movie is in love with the boys who bleed blue, even as it obsessively details their habit of making others spill crimson. Street Kings lives in the narrow cracks between dedication and derangement, accommodation and corruption, and leaves it to audiences to figure out where their rooting interest lies...
...don’t want to overstress the point about the composition of the committee. As Mitchell wrote to me in an e-mail, “the narrow question of its composition is far outweighed by who it listens to and how it undertakes its work...
Golf, being a Scottish game, is steeped in Calvinist notions of sin and salvation. At most championship courses, a graceful swing from the tee will find the fairway, but when golfers err from the straight and narrow, they find themselves in the wilderness of the rough. The Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia is different: being in Southern Baptist country, it gives golfers the benefit of the doubt. Its wide, generous fairways mean the outcome is rarely predestined from the tee. What matters is the endgame - the approach shot and, most crucially, the chips and putts on its devilishly slick...