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...It’s exciting coming in when the game is on the line,” Cole says. “You’ve got to hold that lead. Not having to hold back and being able to pump hard strikes is really a relief...
...best offense is a good defense. Sure, the Crimson put up twelve runs against Holy Cross on Wednesday. But Harvard only earned one run on four hits against Yale on Saturday, and after five scoreless innings, the Crimson was able to walk off the field breathing a sigh of relief...
...Like the U.S., Mexico had a race problem. With plentiful intermarrying between the indigenous population and the descendants of Spanish emigrés, the country was its own rainbow coalition, or contradiction. Most of the movie stars were light-skinned; those that weren't often played comic or villainous relief. But unlike Hollywood, Mexico didn't ignore the race issue. And in Joselito Rodriguez' Angelitos Negros (Little Black Angels), the prejudice of the invaders toward the natives, or anyone with native blood, is crucial, poignant and bizarre. Its script, by Rogelio A. González (from a play...
...Crimson managed only four hits against the Bulldogs’ pitching tandem of Kayla Kuretich and Deanna DiBernardi. Kuretich went the first four innings and allowed just three hits to improve to 3-3 on the season. DiBernardi allowed just one hit in three innings of relief to pick up her first save of the season.Yale’s pitchers were strong throughout the weekend, not surprising considering the Bulldogs rank second in the Ivy League in team ERA with a 2.39 mark.Harvard threatened in the fifth when it loaded the bases against DiBernardi with just...
...painfully rushed. Unfinished and unmoving, the pivotal sequence hardly illuminates Starks’ motivation or advances the narrative. The strongest aspect of “First Snow” is the cast of supporting characters that surround Starks. Starks’ co-workers and acquaintances provide much-needed comic relief. William Fitchtner and Rick Gonzalez, playing two of Starks’ fellow salesmen, brighten their scenes by lightening the mood with dry humor, lampooning the mundane life of a traveling salesman. Starks’s interactions with the two, particularly in bars, create a vivid portrait of his life before...