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...bases. With Vance and Salsgiver, who stole 18 bags in 20 attempts, Harvard led the Ivy League in stolen bases by a comfortable margin with 86.Returning to Cambridge the following weekend, Harvard dropped a heart-breaking 1-0 pitcher’s duel to Penn in the cold and rain before rebounding to down the Quakers in the nightcap and take two from Columbia. Then the Crimson turned its attention to its Rolfe Division foes, splitting with Yale on the road and nabbing three of four from visiting Brown. Those results set the stage for a climactic home-and-home...
...Island, Ga., for the first time in five months. “Over the winter, you pretty much lose all the momentum and confidence you had from the fall,” junior Tom Hegge said. Improvement after Georgia was readily apparent throughout the short spring season. After a rain-shortened tournament at Yale, Harvard played its best golf of the spring at the New England Division I Championships. The team hung with or beat several Ivy rivals, conveniently peaking the week before the Ivy League tournament. “We’re all kind of hitting our stride...
Holman was a prodigiously restless world traveler in the early 19th century, a time before Ambien and JetBlue when the world was a dangerous, miserably uncomfortable place to travel. He circled the earth, traversed Siberia, roamed the Australian outback and the Brazilian rain forest, climbed Vesuvius during an eruption, hunted elephants in Ceylon and slave ships in the Atlantic and wrote best-selling books about it all. He did all this despite a grave handicap: he was blind...
...warns against trying to understand artwork “too rationally or too literally right away.” Instead one should just listen to the sound of the words, she says, quoting the Mexican writer Octavio Paz: “Listen to me as one listens to the rain.”Her more recent work has become increasingly spiritual with frequent references to dreams and phenomena beyond our world.Valentine says that contemporary culture is less receptive to poetry than in the fifties when she started writing. “The interesting serious literature in this culture is declining...
...Almost as if on cue, as Benedict's voyage to Auschwitz drew toward its close early Sunday evening, the wind picked up and a cool rain began to fall. The final ceremony began with the Pope pausing to pray at memorials in the different languages of the 1.5 million killed. But by the time he reached the final plaque, the rain had stopped, the umbrellas were tucked away, and the pack of reporters noticed that across the broad field of half-standing brick barracks of Birkenau, a vivid rainbow had appeared. The editors of TIME, like those...