Word: stretch
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...from Chiang Mai, Proud Phu Fah doesn't attract young urbanites so much as families and others looking for a quiet puff of Thai mountain air. Yet that's not to say that the hotel lacks contemporary style. The first clue to its existence comes on a bare, green stretch of road in the Mae Rim Valley, where a small sign beckons: HIP HOTEL AND RESTAURANT. The next is a gate in an isolated grassy lay-by, where soft jazz pipes from the trees. "We wanted to try a new concept," says co-owner Siriphen Siwanarak, who left a design...
...been handling the Hindenburgian flameout of my beloved baseball team, the New York Mets. I'm O.K. Really. I've been through worse... even though this was, well, awful beyond imagining. The losses-seven straight to the crude, macho Phillies, then 12 out of 17 down the stretch. The incessant errors. The pitchers throwing cantaloupes to hitters who didn't belong in the majors. The mental errors that weren't scored as errors. The feeling, in the end, that no lead was safe because-no lead was safe. The realization that every walk surrendered, even a two-out walk with...
...anguished. Not me. We Mets fans are made of stranger stuff. We are not like the long-suffering Cubs or Red Sox nations-may they face each other in October, by the way! We have not had a history of squelched Septembers. We've had a couple of disappointing stretch runs, but this is our first epic belly flop. Usually we're gone by Mother's Day. In fact, this is not even close to my greatest baseball disappointment...
...competitive,'" he explains. "'There was nothing I could do to control it.' It has nothing to do with the fact that he's lazy and unqualified." You can do the same thing here. The Phillies are a team of destiny. Sure, the Mets didn't play well down the stretch, sure they made 21 errors over the last 17 games. But gosh, give those Phils credit: They went 13-4 in those final games. Really, who could stop them? (Answer: a team that did any better than 5-12 in those same 17 games...
...score even at 4 following three Dartmouth errors and snagged the lead on a block by Trimble. The Big Green followed with a 6-0 run to take a 10-5 lead into a Harvard timeout. The Crimson chipped away at the lead, putting together a 7-3 stretch of its own and pulling within one point of Dartmouth, 13-12, after a kill by senior Mimi Hanley. Though flirting with the lead, the Crimson was on the wrong end of a Big Green 12-4 run that afforded Dartmouth a 25-16 lead. The Big Green maintained that lead...