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...some of the little things in each ballgame to get guys on base," Walsh said. "We rely on the bunt, we rely on the hit-and-run, we try to steal bases. If we can do those things, we're going to score some runs. If we try to rely on guys going yard each time, we're not going to have much success...
...after All-American Allison Feaster capped a 35-point, 13-rebound performance with a key steal and two crucial free throws in the waning seconds of the game, even the crowed of 5,000 plus fans--the vast majority of them Stanford supporters--sat silently in disbelief of what was happening to their beloved Cardinal...
...many lovers / Who settled for the thrill / Of basking in my spotlight / I never felt / So happy." The song ends with a rejection of all the Material Girl once held dear "No handsome stranger, heady danger / Drug that I can try / No ferris wheel, no heart to steal / No laughter in the dark / No one night stand, no far off land / No fire that I can spark." The ending of the song is irresistibly cryptic: "And now, I find / I've changed my mind." And then you hear her final whisper, "This is my religion...
Only when it had gone down 14-9 did the Crimson snap back to its senses, making a legitimate play to at least steal one game. Harvard fought off nine match points while slowly working its way back into the game, trying at 14-14 on a spectacular pair of blocks from Lewis and Olsen...
...character, language, situation, structure, plot." He does not add "drugs, booze, angry sex, bar fighting, class resentment, familial dysfunction." The kids will learn to chord this country music on their own. Or not. Now they seem shy and tentative. The professor tries to loosen them up: "A good writer steals from other writers," he says. "Got to be willing to steal, to pillage." Got to be willing, Russell Banks might say to himself, to be merely very good in novel after novel while critics use words like talented and valuable and consign you to the respectable second rank...