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...particular starters Brent Suter and Conner Hulse. The two young hurlers had their struggles, but by the end of the season both looked prepared to be rotation mainstays in the future. This is not to say that the Crimson played great baseball this year. Harvard had a penchant for digging its own grave—its defense committed too many untimely errors and its pitching staff threw too many balls outside the strike zone, as well as too far into it. Eventually the team’s bats returned to Earth and its flaws proved too numerous. The Crimson blew...
...McCarthy’s penchant for living a full life is evidenced by his myriad of activities; his academic schedule alone is daunting. In addition to his position as a lecturer in History and Literature, McCarthy is a member of the tutorial board for the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality, and an adjunct lecturer on Public Policy and faculty research affiliate at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School...
...should have listened to your parents when they told you not to go to Cancun for spring break. No, not because of the warring drug lords. Or because of your penchant for tequila shots and wet t-shirt contests. In fact, the reason you shouldn't have gone to Mexico involved neither alcohol nor sex! It was… THE SWINE...
Willett said that these changes would reduce Americans’ penchant for sugar and condition their palates to a lower level of sweetness...
...Alec Baldwin), owns a lucrative housing development business and has hired Adrianna’s mother (Cynthia Nixon) to enable their affair. Numbly observing their liaison is Adrianna’s father (Timothy Hutton), who is physically consumed and financially impotent because of Lyme disease, a consequence of his penchant for hunting. Meanwhile, Scott’s mother (Jill Hennessy) longs for her former life in Queens as she tries to overlook her struggling marriage. Finally, the catalyst of much of the film’s action is the return of Scott’s older brother, Jimmy (Kieran Culkin...