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...that's easy to like but hard to love. It's thin, it's shallow, it dates easily, it rarely feels larger than the thing it's making fun of. A case in point would be Gary Shteyngart's first novel, The Russian Debutante's Handbook, a charming-enough outing about expatriates in Prague that has approximately one joke that gets steadily less funny over time. An exception would be Shteyngart's second book, Absurdistan (Random House; 352 pages), a satire that is profoundly funny, genuinely moving and wholly lovable...
...goal. Of course every kid that picks up a bat and ball wants to play in the Majors, but at this point the picture becomes much clearer. Sacrifices need to be made to see these goals through. In my own case, I am currently limited to sixty pitches per outing. Now if I had stayed at Harvard I would likely be throwing a hundred or more pitches every time I took the mound. As a pitcher you pride yourself on how long you can lead your team and how many wins you can earn. Throwing only sixty pitches limits...
...scored off junior co-captain Julia Kidder’s subsequent double to center. Princeton hurler Erin Snyder retired the next two batters to end the inning, but the one run was all the Crimson would ultimately need to secure the win. Sophomore hurler Shelly Madick had an outing similar to last year’s performance against Snyder. Once again, last year’s Ivy League Pitcher of Year proved to be no match for Madick, who preserved Harvard’s perfect record against Snyder. Madick and Snyder both “move[d] the ball well...
...innings of work, while senior Michele McAteer pitched to the fatal final batter.A pair of opportunities to get the game called on the run rule slipped away from Harvard in the later innings.Despite the difficult defeat, Allard is hopeful that her team learned some valuable lessons from the outing.“First of all, we need to finish things,” Allard said. “We didn’t finish the game...We let the game lull, and we stopped. The last part of it was that we started to doubt ourselves in the bottom...
...next time you find yourself letting the minutes slip away while you nervously monitor how Cubs starter Carlos Zambrano is faring in his outing on the west coast—for fantasy baseball is of course the most powerful of procrastination tools, the lazy college student’s best friend and his mortal enemy—remind yourself that you are taking part in a rich intellectual, literary tradition that has deep roots in the Harvard community...