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After the second-seeded St.John's basketball team was upset by tenth-seeded Gonzaga in the second round of the NCAA tournament, the Harvard women's softball team added to the pain of the St. John's faithful, holding the Red Storm offense to two runs in two games...
...sure, there are computers. But apart from its being terminally onanistic, there is no thrill in beating a machine. You can't feel its pain when it loses. Or to put it slightly less misanthropically, you miss the shared astonishment and delight at a brilliant combination or desperate last-second checkmate. If a king falls in the forest and there is no one there to see it (except you and some stone-dead chess algorithm), did it ever happen? You might as well make a hole-in-one playing alone...
Some performers struggle for years before making it big. SAMMIE BUSH knows that pain all too well. He's pined for pop success since kindergarten, and finally, at 13, his moment has arrived. I Like It, the first single of his debut album, From the Bottom to the Top, is the No. 1-selling R.-and-B. track in the U.S. Sammie doesn't plan on being a one-hit wonder. "I want to win Grammys," says the Miami tyke, who phoned in at noon on a school day ("I'm just missing one day," he assured). Comparisons to Michael...
...fact is that I write this not as his best friend, or as someone who saw his pain and his triumphs up close. I didn't. I write this only as one of the many members of the Class of 1999, and one of many human beings, who were moved by Navin's life...
...uniformed force is responsible for more than just keeping drunken students from passing out in the MAC quad. From money transports across campus and late-night patrol around Au Bon Pain to plain-clothes detail and a host of other duties, they are charged with keeping Cambridge from ending up like New Haven...