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When a baseball team’s best hitter cranks two home runs in the first three innings, it usually adds up to a win.But for the slumping Harvard baseball team, nothing has guaranteed a victory of late. The Crimson (1-17) failed to muster much offense beyond captain Matt Vance’s two homers, and Holy Cross (9-14) used an eighth-inning triple to steal a 4-3 win yesterday at Fitton Field in Worcester, Mass. The Crimson hasn’t posted a victory since a 4-1 decision over Lafeyette on March 16.Locked...
...audience last fall at the New York Society for Ethical Culture included the usual collection of cerebral city-dwellers and self-indulgent intellectuals. Yet, for a room populated by the social and academic elite, the topic of debate—“Resolved: the Ivy League should be abolished”—was gratingly ironic...
...Fitzsimmons said that the admissions office might be relying more than usual on the waitlist—which numbers in the “many hundreds”—to fill up the Class...
...texts that claimed to be imbued with its spirit - works with titles like The Wolf's Way, Wolf Soul, The Cool Wolves, Think Like a Wolf and Wolf Strategy. Illegal reproductions of Wolf Totem, of course, were rampant. No one knows the exact number of pirated copies sold but usual estimates are between five and 10 times the authorized version, which sold around 2 million. Total sales in China could therefore be as high as 20 million...
...reasons for any great band's decline--and from 1983 to 1992 R.E.M. was one of the greatest, not only cranking out an unmatched series of jangly, literate records but also tracing a heroic arc from arty Athens, Ga., bar band to arena filler without any of the usual soul-selling--are not particularly surprising. Imagine if your livelihood depended on constantly being with, and agreeing with, your three best friends from college. It's enough to make a rock star want to become a farmer, which is exactly what drummer Bill Berry did when he retired from the band...