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PHILADELPHIA—The Harvard baseball team began its Ivy League campaign tentatively on Saturday, splitting a doubleheader at Penn. Playing one of the league’s worst teams from a year ago, the Crimson was plagued by its slumbering bats, which registered just eight hits in 16 innings, and now finds itself already having to play catch-up in the remorseless race for the Ancient Eight’s Rolfe Division title. “We didn’t come down here for a split,” head coach Joe Walsh said...
PHILADELPHIA—The Harvard baseball team began its Ivy League campaign tentatively on Saturday, splitting a doubleheader at Penn. Playing against one of the league’s worst teams from a year ago, the Crimson was plagued by its slumbering bats, which registered just eight hits in 16 innings, and now finds itself already having to play catch-up in the remorseless race for the Ancient Eight’s Rolfe Division title. “We didn’t come down here for a split,” head coach Joe Walsh said...
...including rape and incest. The ruling Law and Justice party has agreed to change the constitution to include a phrase that says that life is protected "since conception" to strengthen the anti-abortion laws but wants to keep the current exceptions that make the procedure legal. The opposition is split: with the left against the constitional change and the center-right uncertain of what position to support. A vote is planned for mid-April...
Within Zimbabwe itself the tectonic plates have been shifting. Toward the end of last year the divided opposition called a truce to work together under the banner of the Save Zimbabwe Campaign. More significantly, Mugabe's own ruling zanu-PF party has begun to split as potential successors become impatient for power. After years of playing off one faction against another, there is now no credible successor whom Mugabe can trust to allow him to retire in peace. He rules now through the Joint Operation Command made up of senior army, police and intelligence officers...
...chomper, pursuing a male heir through six wives. It's a wonder it took the entertainment industry so long to fully exploit him--and the other Tudors too--since the period was one of the most scandal plagued in British history. The Diana-Charles divorce had nothing on the split from Rome. "It was a sexy time. It was a dangerous time. You can't exaggerate the violence and the beauty," says Michael Hirst, screenwriter of The Tudors and The Golden Age. "This is the moment when Henry--because he falls in love with a younger woman--destroys English history...