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...there was the emergence of Zak Farkes, the sophomore middle infielder whose assault on the Harvard record-books, for a stretch, transcended wins and losses. Farkes blasted four home runs against Dartmouth in the final weekend, shattering the 34-year-old school single-season record. The last of them, a missile into the trees beyond Dartmouth’s Red Rolfe Field, broke the school career record...
...landing target of the D-day invaders was a 50-mile stretch of shoreline in the middle of the Cherbourg--Le Havre crescent in France. On the night of June 5, the operation began as Allied paratroopers boarded planes and gliders. "O.K., let's go" was Eisenhower's direct order. Just after midnight, June 6, they began landing behind enemy lines, with orders to attack and destroy German gun batteries. Meanwhile, an armada started making its way toward the designated beaches. Allied troops began landing at 6:30 a.m. Wading through the water onto French soil, they met vastly different...
...doing that one already. That's right, Mel Gibson is following up "The Passion" with "Savages," a new ABC sitcom about a widowed dad raising his sons alone. (Theologically speaking, I guess "The Passion" was also about a father-son relationship, so maybe it's not such a stretch.) But we're getting ahead of ourselves. Before ABC executives announced their new fall schedule at the New Amsterdam theater in New York, they first had to explain to the assembled advertisers why they should have faith ABC would deliver anyone to actually watch their commercials...
...Buruma and Margalit sometimes stretch the analogies between European antimodernism and Islamic fundamentalism too far-as when they compare a T.S. Eliot poem denouncing the ungodliness of modern cities to the frenzy that prompted the attack on the World Trade Center. Occidentalism might not provide a conclusive answer to the question "Why do they hate us?" But by relating how much of the rhetoric that fuels men like bin Laden came originally from the West, it makes the distinction between "them" and "us" murkier than we previously realized...
...crews passed the midway point and headed for the final stretch, the Crimson remained within striking distance, just two seats behind at its greatest deficit...