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...instance: Until I became a sportswriter, I would not believe one could root against a Red Sox comeback in the bottom of the ninth. But when deadline looms and the Sox open the inning with back-to-back singles, I've prayed for the double play. The triple play, even better. The dramatic finish is the enemy, because it requires rewriting the first half of the story. The best baseball games are 6-2 snoozers with all of the scoring early, because one can write the entire story by the time the game is over...
What was the group's sound? "We started in junior high messing around in a friend's basement. By the ninth grade, we were playing clubs in Boston. We were rock/alternative, with a sort of heavy edge to it. The music is really good, but the lyrics suck. If they want to make it big, they need lyrics that are in touch with teen angst and stuff that sells...
...other Harvard harriers stayed at the front of the pack, too. Angell came in fourth, Martin sixth, Sheppard-Sawyer seventh and Miksezewski ninth. That gave the Crimson five runners in the top 10, which almost guarentees you of winning a triangular...
...Howe Cup, which is the tournament that crowns the unofficial "best team." The Crimson dropped only five matches against the five teams it played in the Howe Cup, including a 7-2 win over Yale (who had entered the tournament the undefeated) in the final, to win its ninth Howe Cup in the 20 year history of that tournament...
...clerk in the U.S. Solicitor General's Office. He also clerked in 1986-87 with judge William A. Norris of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and in 1987-88 with Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan...