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...outs,” Allard said.Kerper added a solo home run in the seventh for the final Crimson run.HARVARD 2, YALE 1It was a tough weekend for Yale starter Wojciak, who was outdueled by a Harvard pitcher twice in two days. In the series opener, it was Madick who shut down the Yale offense, allowing just three hits and two walks in picking up her sixth complete game and improving to 8-3 on the year.Murphy hit a solo home run in the third to break a 1-1 tie, and the score would not change after that...
...police officer investigating the case is, in fact, the dead woman's lover, which opens the possibility of doctored evidence. The other is the cat-and-mouse game Crawford plays with the prosecutor, Willy Beachum (Ryan Gosling). Beachum is eager to close what appears to be an open-and-shut case and move on private practice with a white-shoe law firm. Wily Ted counts on Beachum's inattentiveness, but doesn't count on the young lawyer's scrappy spirit, his growing sense that justice must be done before ambition can be served. Up to a point, the movie...
Budget showdowns have a way of inspiring leaders to predict national calamity should their side not prevail. In 1995, some Clinton allies warned that the elderly would be forced to eat dog food if the government shut down. Now President Bush and Republicans warn that troops are at risk of assorted deprivations because Democrats passed House and Senate funding bills tied to withdrawal from Iraq in 2008. Bush is sure to veto them. He's right that without congressional funding, military operations would eventually have to be scaled back. But calamity is not exactly imminent. The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service...
...their own or drop out of the Iraqi government--would not only provoke the ire of Iraq's Arab majority but also risk intervention by Iraq's neighbors, such as Turkey, Iran and Syria, which all have restive Kurdish minorities of their own. Turkey, for instance, would likely shut the borders with Kurdistan and stop all flights coming in from over its airspace. Of all the problems that would follow, the most ironic could be that a newly independent oil-rich Kurdistan, without any refineries or pipelines, would run out of gas. Falah Mustafa Bakir, head of the Kurdish government...
...punch of two of Boston College’s (BC) aces, the Harvard baseball team could get little done offensively, as it fell 6-3 to the Eagles in an afternoon game yesterday at O’Donnell Field. Junior Terry Doyle and senior Ted Ratliff shut down the Crimson (10-12, 5-3 Ivy) with excellent breaking balls and solid fastballs, allowing just six hits on the day—all to the top four hitters in the Harvard lineup. “I was really surprised to see Doyle and Ratliff with the weekend coming...