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...among Harvard baseball's distinguishing characteristics this season remains its talented--and extraordinarily deep--pitching staff. After losing Frank Hogan '97 to graduation, and watching junior righthander Andrew Duffell struggle with injury, the Crimson found aces wherever it looked, from junior second-team All-Ivy starter Garett Vail (5-2, 2.34 ERA) to freshman phenom John Birtwell...
After 15 years as a chef in Vail, Colo., James Gibson has a memory of every bump and turn on the resort town's famous slopes. Now he offers the next best thing to even first-time visitors. For as little as $15 a day, Gibson's Maptrek company rents skiers and trail bikers fanny packs equipped with global-positioning satellite devices that record their every move. At day's end they get a map showing their precise path and approximate speed. In the fall, Gibson will add head-mounted videocams, so visitors can replay their adventures...
...ensure quality starts, Harvard will most likely stick with its three most experienced starters, juniors Duffel, Garett Vail, and Donny Damieson, each of whom has thrown 35-plus innings this season and sports an ERA below four...
Harvard Coach Joe Walsh will likely throw his weekend quartet--juniors Andrew Duffell, Donny Jamieson and Garett Vail along with sophomore Derek Lennon--against the Green, whose hot-hitting lineup posted a whopping 38 runs in home wins against New Hampshire College and Holy Cross this week...
Listening to a new Sonic Youth CD is like taking a holiday. Not an easy vacation like, say, skiing in Vail, but more like an adventure tour, the musical equivalent of climbing a particularly high peak without bottled oxygen. Traditional rock can be a sad grind--for example, on Eric Clapton's wan new CD, Pilgrim, one of the few listenable songs, Sick and Tired, turns out to have disturbing lyrics about threatening to blow out a woman's brains...