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Yale did keep the Crimson's hottest hitter, junior third baseman Nick Carter at bay throughout most of the game and the weekend. But the rest of the Harvard order more than picked up the slack. In the win Saturday, Shakir alone supplied five RBI out of the ninth hole...
Thus we have a strange situation in the lecture halls of many science classes: an overly qualified student body and an under-qualified pool of teachers. What results is largely a product of the drive of many of these science students; they pick up the slack. When given a sub-par teacher, as they often are, they make up for the inability of teachers to impart knowledge by reading supplementary books, studying with other students, getting tutored, going to a section-leader’s office hours—whatever it takes. The drive toward knowledge and the almost infinite...
...Palestinian sniper in the West Bank city of Hebron last week, the Israeli Foreign Ministry disseminated the picture to the media, with her parents' consent and the rationalization of putting a face to Palestinian violence. She lies on her side, her dead eyes half-open, her blackened lips slack. A trickle of blood beneath her head stains her cheerfully patterned sheets. The photo is intimate, scrapbook-like; you do not ever want to see it, if only because it is nigh impossible to look at without imagining being the one taking...
...Harvard will need production out of the entire order this weekend, not just Carter. If that is to happen, usual contributors like Mager (.219), catcher Brian Lentz (.193), and first baseman Josh San Salvador (.250) will have to pick up the slack. As a team, Harvard is hitting just .248 on the year—a mark even sicklier than its Ivy-worst .258 clip from a year...
...behavior his coach just won't tolerate. In an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times, Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson said his 22-year-old superstar was bored with the team's offense and a potentially divisive force in the locker room, but perhaps more ominously, a slack reader. Jackson assigned the Italian-raised Bryant Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres because "Kobe's a real Mediterranean kid," said Jackson. "I thought the book would be a good look at the culture he's attached to. It's a beautiful book. Tragic. But he didn't like...