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...Saturday, though, he lost to eventual runner-up and No. 2 seed Sam Warburg...
...doubles consolation draw the next day, Chu and Chiu won their first match but then lost to the No. 5 seed pair from Virginia, 8-4, in another match closer than the final score suggested...
...dream after-school job: bat boy for the New York Empires baseball team. His single mom (Mare Winningham) wants him to focus on his studies, so he tells her he's spending late nights with his school's Scrabble club. But while doing an errand for a bad-seed player, he's caught with the cheater's steroids. Will he tell the truth or take the fall? Will Mom let him chase his diamond dream? Will he take Betty to the dance or stand her up for Veronica? O.K., I made up the last one, but boys in pop culture...
Jonathan Chu, Harvard’s captain and the second seed, advanced to the quarterfinals before losing to the Cavaliers’ Marko Miklo, the tournament’s seventh seed. Freshman Ashwin Kumar also fell at UVA hands, dropping his first round match 6-3, 6-7, 6-3 to one of the Cavaliers’ top recruits...
That single seed, rooted in Roth's singular imagination, grew into an entire alternative world. The Plot Against America is set in a shadow country that never was, an America in which Lindbergh, an isolationist in real life, defeated Franklin Delano Roosevelt to become the 33rd President of the United States of America. Armed with that premise, Roth takes readers on a harrowing safari across interdimensional borders into a bizarro version of his hometown, mid-century Newark, N.J., where we encounter Roth's own family and Roth himself as a child, living under the Lindbergh Administration. "My little rubric that...