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...Crimson. Both coaches and teammates welcome the development and are impressed by the freshman’s composure and maturity. “He’s good,” Haviland said. “I was impressed with him. For a freshman to come out there and throw two games in a row like that—I mean, they didn’t have a shot all day.” The team hopes that opposing hitters will not have a shot at Cole for the rest of the season. If Cole repeats his performance of this...
...throw China in with Germany and Japan, two countries that are now as aggressive as pussycats? Because all three exemplify the oldest and meanest problem of world politics: how to deal with rising powers. History has written an iron law about such powers' trajectories: First, they become rich, then rowdy. China is but the latest instance. As states consolidate politically and then take off economically, they begin to claim a "place in the sun," as the future German Reich Chancellor Bernhard von B?low famously proclaimed...
...When your starters are giving you such quality starts as we got from [Castellanos] and Brunnig,” Walsh said, “Unger came in and had six punchouts in two innings and you’re wishing you had a fifth game to throw him.”“After a weak start for our pitching staff, it’s kind of good to see guys coming through,” Brunnig added. “Getting their pitches down, hitting their spots, taking care of business.”Harvard added a pair...
...best curveball I’ve had in awhile,” he said—for strikes. “[Haviland’s] curveball has really come a long ways this year,” Walsh said. “He’s throwing it not up high, coming at the belt; it’s starting knee-high and finishing at the knees. He’s making it tough.” Cole, for his part, continued one of the more impressive runs by a freshman Harvard pitcher in recent memory. He held the Quakers...
...country to demand respect and the freedom to pursue their American dreams.First, the problem. Most of the press coverage surrounding the student protests portrays them as a response to two particularly radical proposals: one that would make simply being an illegal immigrant a felony and another that would throw the book at employers who hire undocumented workers. These proposals are just the most popular of a series targeted at immigrants, including one that would strip citizenship rights from the native-born children of those who entered the country illegally. But the most disturbing thing about the debate over immigration...