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...Huskies had a response of their own, picking up two runs in the bottom of the eighth. Freshman Logan Gillis doubled down the leftfield line off Way, scoring two and putting Northeastern down by only a run as the teams headed into the ninth. Harvard was unable to pick up an insurance run, stranding two on base. But sophomore Conner Hulse was able to hold off a Northeastern rally, stranding two baserunners and getting the save to conclude the wild affair. Way earned the win with 2.2 innings of relief...
This past year the National Book Award celebrated its 60th anniversary by conducting a public poll to select the best work of fiction that had won the award. To make the short list for this poll, the National Book Foundation balloted a number of select writers to pick their three favorite winners. Interestingly, four out the six books chosen were short story collections—the collected stories of William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, and John Cheever respectively. Only two were novels—Thomas Pynchon’s “Gravity?...
...spread of the clinics, Palm Beach County commissioners just passed a moratorium to keep new clinics from opening while officials try to hammer out a solution. Other local governments are passing similar moratoriums. A commissioner in one city, Delray Beach, wants to require patients to be fingerprinted when they pick up their pills, for better monitoring. (See how to prevent illness...
...took Pannell just 17 seconds to even the score with his second goal of the game. Cornell regained possession after the faceoff, and after a long set of pick and rolls, Pannell put a move on sophomore Daniel DiMaria and rifled it past Crimson freshman goalie Harry Krieger for the game-winning goal with only 11 seconds on the clock...
...unlikely case that Obama chooses poorly or his team fails to execute an effective rollout strategy, a botched pick would likely be too tempting a target for conservatives to ignore. If Obama chooses well and his strategists frame the pick in the right way - and no one expects the next Justice to differ vastly in ideology from Stevens - this could end up being one of the most anticlimactic Supreme Court confirmations of the modern...