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...constant efforts to improve.“I like to get out there and compete, and I like to win,” Prince says. “I don’t know if there’s a much better feeling than...going out there as nine or ten guys on the field and in the lineup and competing against the other nine or ten guys. If you can’t get excited about that, then I don’t know what you can get excited about.”As Prince and all the Crimson...
...Perlman and his arm held up just fine. The lanky hurler made nine starts, going 3-1 with a 3.11 ERA. Perhaps even more telling, he finished tied for second in the league with 55 innings pitched...
...When Radiohead released “In Rainbows” last year, the band allowed their fans to ascribe their own monetary value to the music, asking them to pay as little or much for the CD as they saw fit. Other bands with large, loyal fan bases like Nine Inch Nails have since tried this experiment with varied levels of success. What this initiative ultimately amounts to is a kind of sentimental gratuity that fans can leave their favorite bands. Someone who gave Radiohead $10 for “In Rainbows” most likely...
...Harvard has changed. When it began, it consisted of nine men preparing for lives of contemplation and self-denial in the Protestant ministry. Now, it consists of 6,700 undergraduate men and women preparing for lives of contemplation and self-denial in the current economy. With the demise of the Reason and Faith requirement in the new General Education system, religion at Harvard seems to have completed its trajectory from prime focus of the classroom to just another extracurricular activity. On the Harvard website, “Religious Groups” inhabit a drop-down menu of activities cheek...
...recruited as a pitcher—I pitched my whole life, ever since I was nine years old,” Vertovez says. “They needed me in the outfield freshman and sophomore years, and last year we didn’t have a shortstop so I assumed that role, but I’m really excited to get back to the mound, to have control of the game. That’s what I loved about it from the beginning...