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Harvard’s response was swift. In the bottom of the first inning Macadam recorded a one-out triple to right center, setting the scene for Murphy to hit a sacrifice fly to center that scoring her teammate. That was followed by Bock’s fifth home run of the season in the second inning, connecting sweetly with the ball to clear the centerfield wall...
...This is not, however, to imply that the Core’s passing will be swift and complete; it will linger alongside its replacement through 2012, as the incoming class of freshman will be allowed to choose one set of requirements or the other...
...possible effort to avoid their company for the last year and a half, since that party when he and she, in a moment of port-induced passion, confessed their respective marital sins before the whole of society. If only one had made a revelation, it would have been the swift end to their marriage—regardless the performance of the matrimonial act had certainly come to an end—but their mutual admissions had trapped the Viscount and Viscountess in a sort of agonizing stasis. Under such circumstances, there could be few hours in life more painful than...
...rival, Barack Obama, is much more dubious: "Now, if we're honest with ourselves, we know that some of the changes in our economy can't be reversed," Obama hours later told a crowd in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. "The swift and strong currents of globalization can't be stopped...
...scarlet ibis, Trinidad's national bird. At sundown, some 10,000 of the vermillion-feathered, migratory waterfowl return from days spent in Venezuela, just nine miles away, to roost in the mangrove swamp south of Port of Spain. The window is brief, as a tropical sundown can seem as swift as a blanket thrown over a birdcage, but the ibis do not disappoint. In the day's last light, pack after pack of ibis fly in from the west, swoop in low over the sun-brightened water, alighting on an island of mangrove trees - one of eight or so roosting...