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...Walsh said. “I’m really pleased that we knocked Staehely out. He’s the kid that ended our season last year.”But it was six Princeton errors that sealed the win for Harvard. Freshman Greg Van Horn had the roughest day in the field for the Tigers, committing four errors at shortstop. With a 6-1 lead, Walsh left Haviland in the game entering the ninth inning, hoping to rest his bullpen for the next day’s doubleheader against Cornell. But when Princeton loaded the bases...
...wall, the other two stacked one on top of the other. A cement toilet was built into one corner. Never in my life had I been in or even imagined a place so primitive and filthy. The guard came back with several sheets of toilet paper of the roughest kind, which she handed to me through a small square window in the door of the cell, saying, ''I'll lend you this. When you get your supply, you must return to the government the same number of sheets. Now go to sleep. Lie with your head toward the door. That...
...while others are cautious by nature. And still others are fatalists who may believe that a higher power devises mortality schedules that fix a predetermined time when our number is up. Consequently, any single measurement assigned to the risk of driving a car is bound to be only the roughest sort of benchmark. Adams cites as an example the statistical fact that a young man is 100 times more likely to be involved in a severe crash than is a middle-aged woman. Similarly, someone driving at 3:00 a.m. Sunday is more than 100 times more likely...
...Patrick’s personal story is a testament to his dynamic personal character. Born in one of Chicago’s roughest neighborhoods, he went on to graduate from both Harvard College and Harvard Law School. It’s no surprise, then, that Patrick is passionately committed to providing today’s disadvantaged youth with the same opportunities that allowed him to move from Chicago’s South Side to the boardrooms of the Justice Department and Coca-Cola...
...even wilder mishmash. Asked shortly before the race began about his improving prospects, American Floyd Landis just sighs. "Jesus," says Landis, "I have to wait to know who's here--which is sad to say, because [the race] starts in about 24 hours." It could be the Tour's roughest ride...