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Senior righthander Andrew Duffell put the tying run on first when he hit Princeton sophomore catcher Casey Hildreth with a pitch but got the win after classmate Garett Vail retired the final two Tigers to secure the 5-4 victory for his third save of the season...
...team meeting about staying off pitches that hurt us and caused a lot of strikeouts the first time," junior first baseman Eric Binkowski said. "That means passing up high fastballs out of the strike zone against Young and staying off sliders against Rowland. We've really been working on that and I'm confident guys will swing the bats well when they get their pitch...
Much of his work consists of helping to create "pitch books," which are presentations to sell the firm's investment plan to a client. These pitch books, sometimes called prospectuses, play the role of both a marketing document as well as a legal document, according to Tom J. Hsieh '97, an analyst at the firm Donaldson Lufkin Jenrette. The prospectus is used to sell the company to possible investors, but it also protects the investor from scams...
...short film made for just $150 by the Fields brothers, a Cleveland, Ohio, threesome who worked in their father's wedding-video business, the company hired them to develop Student Affairs. And New York independent filmmaker Noah Baumbach, 29, got a telephone call from Imagine inviting him to pitch TV ideas similar to his chatty, cerebral film comedies (one, Kicking and Screaming, was about a group of guys who graduate from college but won't leave). Baumbach came up with Thirty, based in part on his own life and the lives of his friends...
There is a lot of work in precious metals--reliquaries, chalices and other kinds of liturgical equipment. The reliquaries were done at the highest pitch of craft, mostly by goldsmiths whose names have not survived. A modern eye is more apt to enjoy the spectacle of the concentrated, disciplined labor that went into building a tiny sarcophagus out of gold and rock crystal to house a brown bit of human tissue that may or may not have been part of St. Vitus, or a supposed rag off the "seamless robe" worn by Christ at his Crucifixion. Seven hundred years...