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...game makers have tended to avoid the swampy waters of America's painfully controversial conflict. But Battlefield Vietnam (Electronic Arts; $39.95) wades right in with the most harrowing historical multiplayer game yet created. Playing it feels like wandering onto the set of a chaotic Vietnam movie. The ambiance is pitch-perfect; EA licensed original period antiwar hits like Fortunate Son so the tunes could blare ironically across the jungle. As in its predecessor, Battlefield 1942, players compete with strangers over the Internet on an intricate 3-D map (representing the Ho Chi Minh Trail, say, or the city...
It’s not like there’s a dearth of things to talk about. Brunnig can pitch with both arms...
Mann recounts the event with a slight smile on his face—describing how he and his batterymate amazingly ended up striking out the batter on the next pitch, only to hear a mysterious, excruciating “pop” in his arm on a routine throw to third—but the residual disappointment manages to show through the pleasantries...
...joined the Bulldog coaching staff as a volunteer assistant while she studies for her MBA at Yale. Still, the Bulldogs are not despairing, with senior First Team All-Ivy shortstop Leah Kelley and a pair of Second Team All-Ivy members coming back. Sophomore Beth Pavlicek can both pitch and hit, and led the Bulldogs in ERA (1.50), strikeouts (71), and home runs (three). Junior catcher Kristy Kwiatkowski matched Pavlicek’s home run total and also threw out 15 potential base stealers last season. Already this season Yale has been on the wrong side of a display...
...traveling salesmen hawking their wares, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 and Associate Dean of the College Jeffrey Wolcowitz have gone House to House to discuss their ongoing review of the College curriculum. But there’s something slightly off about their sales pitch. For one, they won’t quite let students see inside those briefcases of merchandise that they keep describing in such alluring terms. There’s a good reason for this: the earth-shattering review we’ve been told about is not, in fact, happening...