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After evening its Ivy League record at 3-3 over the weekend, the Harvard softball team (12-15, 5-3 Ivy) continued its winning ways with a pair of victories over a visiting Penn squad Monday afternoon at Soldiers Field. The doubleheader sweep helped the Crimson stretch their Ivy League North Division lead to three games heading into divisional play, which starts next weekend at rival Yale. The defending Ancient Eight champions could not have chosen a better time to find their stride, as the weekend’s success extends the Crimson’s win streak to five...
...films with Mercouri. "Together," writes David Thomson in A Biographical Dictionary of Film, "they made some of the most entertaining bad films of the sixties and seventies: pictures that outstrip their own deficiencies and end up being riotously enjoyable as one waits to see how far pretentiousness will stretch. In good company, and a little drunk, He Who Must Die, Phaedra, and 10:30 P.M. Summer might cure would-be suicides. There are those who found Never on Sunday charming, and Topkapi exciting. They must have been very drunk." Who, after reading Thomson, would dare say they enjoyed these movies...
...same temperature on the other side of the field,” senior outfielder Tom Stack-Babich added. “I’m sure it affected us, but you can’t really blame it.”Harvard now faces a crucial stretch of baseball that, due to weather problems over the past week, will be concentrated in a three-day period. At noon today, the Crimson will play two against visiting Penn in a doubleheader pushed back after a rainy Saturday forecast. Tomorrow, the team will travel tomorrow to Cornell, where it will make...
...entertains a recurring vision of an America we sometimes lose sight of: an optimistic and diverse but essentially pious society in which faiths and a faith-based conversation on social issues are kept vital by the Founding Fathers' decision to separate church and state. It's not a stretch to say the Pope sees in the U.S.--or in some kind of idealized version of it--a civic model and even an inspiration to his native Europe, whose Muslim immigrants raise the question of religious and political coexistence in the starkest terms. Says David Gibson, author of The Rule...
...teenage son to help sell drugs (“Weeds”) or accidentally sleeps with 16-year-old girls (“Californication”). Nonetheless, there is a propensity among programmers to favor the Ross-and-Rachel type stories over the Tony-and-Carmellas.It’s a stretch to say that the popularity of “Weeds” and “Californication” signal some sort of monumental sea change in the qualities television viewers value in their sitcom characters, or in the type and quality of content that will be produced...