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...walk to Goldberg loaded the bases, and freshman right fielder Julia Kidder was struck by an offering from Pavlicek, forcing home Harvard’s second run of the game, and giving the Crimson a two-run advantage heading into the bottom of the seventh...
...classes, I began to think that perhaps I was subconsciously resistant to beginning a thesis. One of the major virtues of a senior thesis, I think, is that it distracts you from the fact that you’re almost done with college. In my youth, whenever I was struck by a foot cramp, my father would tell me to pinch my lip. Although this seems counterproductive and potentially masochistic, the trick works: The lip pain distracts you from the foot pain. The thesis process works in the same way: the immediate pain of the thesis distracts you from...
According to Plan of Attack, Bob Woodward's new book about the events leading to the war in Iraq, George W. Bush was struck by the stone-faced response to his eloquent address to the U.N. General Assembly in September 2002. "The more solemn they looked to me," he tells Woodward, speaking of the U.N. delegates, "the more emotional I was in making the case. Not openly emotional, the more firm I was in making the case. It was a speech I really enjoyed giving." A few weeks later, he tells some members of Congress about the moment: "There were...
Prior to the Beanpot consolation game, Farkes had struck out swinging to end two of the team’s last six contests, first against Boston College and then soon after in Ivy play against Yale. The memories more than stuck with him through to that fateful, final at-bat of last night’s victory...
...threat than tailgates. Instead of the dangers of drunk-driving my parents reminded me that I descend from a long line of extremely weak-stomached drinkers, a reminder which has its own distinct way of echoing. Of all the vices I might encounter far from home, though, gambling struck the most fear into my mother’s heart, more than overdoses, accidents or illicit liasions. Images of her first born son in prison—or, worse, a torture room in the basement of the Bellagio—floated through her imagination, narrated by Robert Stack...