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...been 20 years since John Irving's fourth novel, The World According to Garp, made its author famous. Not only did the book attract a massive readership, but it also inspired a cult following and such extra-literary phenomena as Garp T shirts and fan clubs. Irving's ninth novel, A Widow for One Year (Random House; 537 pages; $27.95), is unlikely to generate a similar hullabaloo. That is not because Irving's storytelling skills have waned; his new novel is in many respects his best since Garp. But over the past two decades, serious fiction has been elbowed ever...
...score remained 1-0 until the third inning when sophomore sensation Deborah Abeles crushed a Westbrock pitch over the rightfield fence for a lead-off round-tripper, her Ivy League-leading ninth of the season. Last week Abeles broke the Harvard career home run record with a blast against Boston College...
Indeed, this Husky team looked quite different from the one the Crimson needed a ninth-inning rally to topple 9-8 in Florida, and even more distant from last year's 33-19 squad that made the NCAA round...
...showed up in the ninth inning clearly expecting a Northeastern win. It should have at least been competitive--these same two teams met a month ago in Florida, and Harvard needed a ninth-inning rally to sweat out a 9-8 victory. Indeed this Northeastern team is not much different from the one that reached the NCAA Regionals last season...
...that goose egg off the scoreboard," he yelled at the final Huskies batter in the ninth. "The wall ain't that far away...