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This is the season when we are reminded that you can safely and reliably count just about anything other than people. Census comes from the Latin censere, which, tellingly, does not mean count so much as estimate, and 2,500 years ago in Rome, people were already squirrelly about being estimated. The penalty for refusing to reveal how many people were in your household, how many slaves, how much livestock, was forfeiting it all and becoming a slave yourself. The Bible tells the story of God getting so mad at King David for ordering a census (granted, it was because...
Junior Eric Eadington pitched a gem, giving up two runs and striking out five in eight innings to earn his second win of the season...
Senior Dan Zailskas came in and pitched a perfect ninth inning to pick up the save and secure Harvard’s first Ivy win of the season...
From there, Black cruised, retiring the last eight batters in order to get her first win of the season...
...transformed into a wireless country with Internet access throughout. But the feeling at large in Port-au-Prince itself is that, with the Haitian government in charge, all the talk of development is a distant dream, hardly a possible reality for citizens living in makeshift tents awaiting the rainy season. (See how to help the Haiti earthquake victims...