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...stats,” Walsh said. “All I’m worrying about is how well we play.”The Crimson will throw sophomore Dan Zailskas and seniors Max Warren, Shawn Haviland, and Brad Unger out on the mound this weekend. Zailskas will pitch Saturday, but the second starter for that day has not been chosen. “It’s definitely different than any other year that I’ve been here,” Haviland said. “At the same time, the intensity will be there because...
...game winning streak. After playing some of its best softball recently, including a four-game sweep of Yale last weekend, the Crimson (18-17, 9-3 Ivy) dropped both games against the Eagles (23-24) 6-4 and 5-3. Inconsistency, in hitting and pitching, against a strong Boston College team spelled the end of the streak for Harvard.“We didn’t keep the offensive pressure on every minute…we just kind of went up and down,” head coach Jenny Allard said. “BC is a tough team...
...counterintuitive to say the least. Back in 2001, when Claudio Del Vecchio, the son of an Italian eyeglasses magnate, was thinking about buying Brooks Brothers from the British retailer Marks & Spencer, the sales pitch included a familiar refrain: a new owner could close the Queens, N.Y., tie factory, move manufacturing overseas and save a ton of money. DelVecchio did buy the company, but he didn't close the factory. Instead, he plowed millions of dollars into improving it. Now every single Brooks tie, whether sold in Detroit, Milan or Dubai, starts there. "Of course we could go to China...
...pitch at Fenway,” senior Shawn Haviland said. “You’re sitting in the same place...
...fulfill his ambitious agenda, Brown will have to master the one skill he has never perfected: the ability to communicate and persuade. In his defense, he can claim bad luck: he followed into office Tony Blair, at his best one of the most pitch-perfect masters of the black arts of political persuasion ever seen. But after a rocky few months, some Labour Party activists, worried about their prospects at the next election (which doesn't have to be held until 2010), openly wonder whether Brown's long time in Blair's shadow has truly prepared...