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...Judging by the play throughout the match, I thought we had a chance to pull this one out. I guess that just wasn’t the case.” Despite the close finish of the competition, Pollak also acknowledged the exhibition style of the round. “It was more just for fun,” Pollak said. “We kind of just went out there and played our own game and enjoyed each others’ company and enjoyed the weather. We weren’t playing in a match format, so it wasn?...
...Balmert was only one stroke off medalists Pia Halbig from Cal and Tiffany Joh of UCLA. “Shooting two-over-par the first time you ever see a golf course is pretty impressive,” Rhoads said. “It was a really, really solid round.” Crimson freshman Christine Cho was not far behind, placing in a tie for eighth place with a five-over-par 77, and classmate Jane Lee and junior Claire Sheldon rounded out the top dozen, both finishing with seven-over-par 79s. Cho was actually even...
...debut album, Fortress Round My Heart, Maria opens with the perfect song for her aesthetic. "Oh My God" is basically just a few frantic chords and two repeated phrases--"Find a cure/Find a cure for my life" in the verse and "Oh my God" in the chorus. One lyric is a prayer for control; the other a realization that she has none, and Maria plays the former like someone meditating before a hurricane and the latter like the hurricane itself. She roars from the back of her throat, timing the G in God to the crash of the snare...
...Homelessness is growing sharply among kids at that critical age, when much of their educational foundation is set, Cash says. His aim: to thwart illiteracy and clear other learning roadblocks early, so the problem "won't migrate into middle and high school." Students will remain on campus year-round. "I don't see that there's anything better in the summertime in their neighborhoods," he notes. The school would cost up to $50,000 a day to operate--three times the cost of a traditional day school with more than twice as many students. "It sounds very exciting...
...made gambling ubiquitous: until the late '80s, only Nevada and New Jersey had casinos, but now 12 states do, and 48 have some form of legalized betting. It's as if we decided that Mardi Gras and Christmas are so much fun, we ought to make them a year-round way of life. And we started living large literally as well as figuratively. From the beginning to the end of the long boom, the size of the average new house increased by about half. Meanwhile, the average American gained about a pound a year, so that an adult...