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...Year, threw six innings and allowed just one run, a day after she had gone the distance in a tough nine-inning 3-2 loss to Hofstra. But Great Dane freshman Leah McIntosh did her one better, throwing a shutout to improve to 11-5. The rookie struck out six and worked around six Crimson hits, stranding eight opposing runners. Madick allowed just three hits and three walks while piling up four strikeouts, but took the loss to move her record to 16-6.“Shelly pitched a great game,” said captain and second baseman...
...Water Persepolis Finds Love in the Afternoon A Scary, Superb Orphanage Blue Skies and Blueberry Nights Rethinking the Art of Subtitles Sicko is Socko Three Twisty Delights Archive All-TIME 100 Movies That's how three very good films in the first days of the 60th Cannes Film Festival struck us. Their perplexities are part of their power. One of them Joel and Ethan Coen's No Country for Old Men, is slated to open in the States this fall. The other two - Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days and Andrei Zvyagintsev's The Banishment - have...
...game win streak that dates back to April 6. The teams are similar in two other key ways: each has a big arm and big bat. For the Crimson they are junior hurler Shelly Madick and freshman slugger Lauren Murphy. Madick posted a 16-4 record this year, struck out 139 batters in 135 innings of work, and has an ERA of 1.45. In the Ivy Championship Series she dominated a strong Quaker line-up, throwing a complete game shutout in the first contest before coming in and closing-out the second. Madick was named Ivy Pitcher of the Year...
...wooden Indian his detractors made him out to be in 2000 (nor did he claim to have invented the Internet), but he did carry himself with a slightly anachronistic Southern formality that was magnified beneath the klieg lights of the campaign. And his fascination with science and technology struck some voters (and other politicians) as weird. "In politics you want to be a half-step ahead," says Elaine Kamarck, his friend and former domestic-policy adviser. "You don't want to be three steps ahead." But now his scientific bent has been vindicated. The Internet is as big a deal...
...rockets from Gaza is unlikely to abate anytime soon, and locals complain that the government has abandoned them. "People in Tel Aviv can sleep at night but we don?t have this option," said Limor Aflalo, a 35-year-old beautician whose home was damaged by a rocket that struck next door. Aflalo and her husband would like to take their two daughters and leave the town, but they said it would be impossible to sell their home. "I don?t know what the solution is, but the government should tell us what...