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...office, enabling the country finally, four months after its most recent election, to form a government. But as Iraq lurches ever more dangerously into a vortex of sectarian and insurgent violence, the idea that simply replacing the incumbent will magically forge a national consensus and reverse Iraq's morbid slide may be more wishful thinking...
...second inning, Matt Kramer slid hard into the base to break up the possible double play. It worked, too: the fielder made no throw and Harvard went on to plate four in the frame, building an insurmountable 7-0 advantage. Kramer had no visible malicious intent on the slide. He didn’t stray from the baseline or lash out with his cleats. As Kramer put it, it was “just a hard play.”Nevertheless, Lions skipper Brett Boretti stormed onto the field and conducted a lengthy tete a tete with the umps...
...long-ball that capped the five-run third. Leadoff man Brendan Byrne scored in all three innings and so did right fielder Lance Salsgiver in his three times up.Backup catcher Matt Kramer unintentionally encapsulated Harvard’s aggressiveness and the Lions’ haplessness when his hard slide in the second inning broke up a potential double play and ignited the ire of the Columbia bench.“It’s just part of the game,” Kramer said. “It’s hard baseball so it’s kind...
...sophomore speedster will remain a fixture at the top of the Crimson order and will continue to man the outfield, rather than slide into the designated hitter’s slot as once speculated...
...turns a pot of hot water into a plume of billowing steam. Melt enough Greenland ice, and you reach the point at which you're not simply dripping meltwater into the sea but dumping whole glaciers. By one recent measure, several Greenland ice sheets have doubled their rate of slide, and just last week the journal Science published a study suggesting that by the end of the century, the world could be locked in to an eventual rise in sea levels of as much as 20 ft. Nature, it seems, has finally got a bellyful...