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...have given him another edge over Staehely, a Houston native. “That’s baseball to me,” Haviland said of the frosty conditions. “The first three or four weeks of the season in high school, we used to shovel snow off the field.” Plus, he added, “the ball doesn’t go as far in the cold.” —Staff writer Jonathan Lehman can be reached at jlehman@fas.harvard.edu...
...tough day in the field for both teams, as the doubleheader featured a combined 10 errors. The Crimson also came out cold at the plate, perhaps due to its week away from live pitching—its midweek game against Holy Cross was postponed twice due to snow. “The cold has an effect, but it’s on both teams—that’s not why we split today,” coach Joe Walsh said. “It really took us a while to get going. You?...
Destiny seems to be heavy on the mind of Mark Fergus, seasoned screenwriter and first-time director, debuting with an upcoming film called “First Snow.”With an Oscar nomination for the screenplay of “Children of Men” and the announcement of several major writing deals, including Marvel Entertainment’s upcoming “Iron Man,” it might seem as though Fergus and writing partner Hawk Ostby are walking a predetermined path to cinematic success. But Fergus cautions against such delusions of grandeur...
...compromise even then, its predictions make frightening reading. The IPCC concludes that global warming has almost certainly triggered changes in the Earth's ecosystem that have already been felt in increased drought, shrinking glaciers and changing seasons, and these effects are expected to intensify. Freshwater stored in glaciers and snow cover will be lost, while rainfall will increasingly come in destructive deluges, reducing the water supply to one-sixth of the humanity - with the teeming masses dependent on the melt water from the Himalayas particularly hard...
...baseball and softball squads both faced an insurmountable challenge today: the weather. Conditions prevented either game from taking place this afternoon. The baseball game was rescheduled after it was postponed yesterday due to both snow and rain. Today it was the ground rather than the sky that made the impact, as the field became simply unplayable. Both sets of diamond dwellers were slated to take the field at 3 p.m. yesterday, baseball at O’Donnell Field against Holy Cross and softball in Chestnut Hill, Mass., against Boston College. Neither school has announced a makeup date for the game...