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That nickname is taken—and the Harvard baseball team, which has recently learned that no late deficit is too steep to overcome, seems to be taking things easy, anyway...
...fall with Dutch playwright Maria Goos' Cloaca. As that checkered list suggests, some stars use a stint in London in hopes of reviving their flagging movie careers; others hope to earn serious acting cred. Stiles needs neither. Her career has been on a steep climb since her riveting turn as the formidable but deeply pained student Kat in 1999's 10 Things I Hate About You, a loose reworking of The Taming of the Shrew. In her current release, Mona Lisa Smile, Stiles makes an impression despite the film's obsessive devotion to Julia Roberts' toothy grin...
...dead trees, placing them strategically to regulate stream flow. He engineered the streambed to just the right grade for optimum flow velocity, and lined it with clean gravel quarried from the property. He transplanted thousands of willow saplings to the area, reversing decades of brush-clearing efforts. The once steep banks are now grassy and gently sloping, almost parklike. Eagles soar overhead, scouting the rich fishery below...
...will be equipped with Kevlar vests, which protect the dogs from shoulders to rump. The 7-lb. vests (cost: $1,000 each) have pouches for cooling packs--panting alone won't do the trick in an Iraqi summer--as well as loops for ropes to help the dogs climb steep terrain and a harness for parachuting into hostile territory...
...that gives Mulhern a taste of what lies ahead. As the pilot begins his descent into Baghdad airport (put your tray tables in their locked-and-loaded position), he takes the plane into a maneuver called "the corkscrew," a tight downward spiral from about 1,000 ft.--in theory, steep enough to throw off the heat-seeking missiles sometimes launched by insurgents below...