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...Shawn Haviland, the freshman phenom whose snap-curveball already belonged somewhere beyond the Ivy League, victory always came easy—at least, when his hard breaking stuff had the good sense to find the strike zone...
...Clearly, early in the piece, disillusionment can strike. "Chloe," 22, started this year on a kindergarten class in a well-to-do part of Sydney. Blonde and attractive, she sensed straight away that some parents doubted she was up to the job. "We're just concerned," one told her, "that you don't understand (five-year-olds) because you don't have children yourself." Within days of taking on 22 kids - and still trying to memorize names - it seemed to her that some of the parents expected she'd already know the idiosyncrasies of the entire class. "One step outside...
With one out in the second, Wilson battled back from and 0-2 count to get a walk, then Wheeler fouled off three consecutive two-strike offerings before earning his own free pass. After Collis froze Vance with a breaking ball on the outside corner for the second out of the inning, Wallace blooped a single just over the outstretched glove of a diving Matt Miller at shortstop to score Wilson and put Harvard...
...with their fat pocketbooks approach the age of 50 and lose their inhibitions. Imagine that! That's a lot of spending. The other thing that research shows will open people's pocketbooks is sadness, and for a lot of people, midlife crisis can be quite sad. And if you strike out in new directions after your crisis, you spend. If you are pursuing a dream, your primary focus is not going to be frugality. You're going to be out there buying stuff...
Certain topics seem to strike a chord with Harvard students—human rights, politics, and female orgasms...