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...team, Harvard’s bats finally woke up in the ninth inning, as the Crimson staged a comeback. Sophomore Marc Hordon notched a one-out double and later scored on an RBI grounder from freshman Schuyler Mann. That would be as close as the Crimson would get, as freshman Ian Wallace struck out to end the contest. Despite his trouble finishing off the Crimson, Rams closer Chris Fisher notched his fourth save of the season, allowing only the one run on one hit in the ninth...
...really didn’t want to be Muslim. I couldn’t imagine what my family would think and how my life would have to change to accommodate things like praying five times a day,” she says. “But one day, I woke up knowing that continuing to reject the truth was unfair to myself and, more importantly, unfair to God. [I realized] that my life could end at any moment and I didn’t want to die in that state,” Cohon says...
Both sides enthusiastically took to their computers, and Mather house residents woke up yesterday to more than 50 open list e-mails debating the implications of letting first-year women into the party—billed as a throwback to the “wildest orgies” of the Roman empire—for free...
...Democrats Tom Daschle and Dick Gephardt and Republicans Trent Lott and Dennis Hastert--on an hour-long tour of the world, briefing them on Afghanistan, Pakistan and his recent trip to Korea, Japan and China. But the next morning Daschle and Gephardt learned what he had left out. They woke up to a headline that said Bush was considering sending military advisers to fight al-Qaeda terrorists in Yemen. It was a major development, but Bush had not mentioned it. Daschle and Gephardt were furious...
Throughout the 1990s, it was mainly frat boys who generated headlines for waking up hazed and dazed in the ER--if they woke up at all. In recent years, however, some colleges have found a new cause for concern: young women who drink as dangerously as, if not more so than, their male classmates. This development invites a raft of knotty questions. Why are today's girls and young women, who are also getting arrested more and doing more drugs, behaving more like boys in so many reckless ways? Do they simply feel freer to be themselves? Or does...