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...many ways, of course, they had. On Sept. 12, with 17 games left in the regular season, the New York Mets led the Philadelphia Phillies by seven games in the National League's Eastern Division. No team in baseball history had ever blown that big a lead, that late in the season. Until now. After the Florida Marlins whipped the listless Mets 8-1 on Sunday, and the Phillies finished off the Washington Nationals 6-1, the team's faithful were on the verge of a collective meltdown...
...Coping strategies work very well when there's some ambiguity," says Daniel Wann, a psychology professor at Murray State (Ky.) University and author of Sport Fans: The Psychology and Social Impact of Spectators. "But up seven games with 17 to go - there's not a lot of ambiguity to this." Ouch. Notes Edward Hirt, an Indiana University psychologist who has studied fan behavior: "It's not one of those things where I can say, 'Do this for 30 minutes, and you'll get over it.' People are going to ruminate...
...Crimson missed some more prime opportunities as senior captain Megan Merritt and Wylie both missed high in the 28th and 29th minutes, and Sheeleigh missed another chance wide left in the 37th minute. The Stags had seven shots in the half but very few tested sophomore goalkeeper Lauren Mann...
...School Dean Jay O. Light said. Lowell House Master Diana L. Eck detailed the history of the bells’ presence at Harvard and the prolonged efforts to return them to their original home. “Though we had been stewards, in a sense, of these bells for seven decades, we realized we had no idea how to ring them properly,” Eck said. “In Russia, they were and are a national treasure.” A Russian Business School student, Konstantin V. Kuzovkov, also spoke at the event. He recalled walking near...
...These are quite important collector paintings," says De Lakenhal's chief curator Christiaan Vogelaar of the seven disputed works at his museum. Although his museum has returned art stolen or purchased by the Nazis before, Vogelaar says the Katz claim came as a surprise. "People thought it was over because of the settlement after the war," says Vogelaar, referring to the 28 paintings returned to the Katz family in the 1940s. They include Rembrandt's Portrait of a Man, which is thought to have been bartered by Nathan in exchange for visas for his extended family and his mother...