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...book Golf is Not a Game of Perfect by sports psychologist Dr. Bob Rotella for his team’s summer reading assignment.Harvey took the advice to heart and emphasized “wedges, chipping and putting” in practice. She says that her improved short game wound up winning her the tournament.Harvey also had the benefit of a friendly face on the course—her sister’s. In fact, Lauren Doughtie, Harvey’s competition in the final round of the tournament, turned out to be the player who had ousted her sister...
...movie can be seen as political, and Yuma has subterranean references to the Iraq occupation. As Fonda notes, "Christian Bale's character comes home from the war, inflicted with a disability beyond the loss of a limb, a deep psychological wound. It's safe to say the audience isn't watching this movie, with its mindless gunplay and out-of-control gangs, and going, 'Holy cow, that's Baghdad!' But those themes are there. A western can talk about today in the past tense...
...Even when we’re not on the best of terms—if, say, a friend beat me in a friendly game of Xbox, he wouldn’t pour salt in the wound by failing to feed me or locking me out. He wouldn’t keep the windows open so I’d freeze, forcing me to go outside just to achieve a little bit of comfort. In short, he wouldn’t be like Holy Cross...
...realize that even though we’re 5-0, we’re not yet playing at the level we need to be playing at.” Luckily, Harvard could rely on Hahn in goal to step up and make some key saves as the clock wound down. “It was crucial in the end that [Hahn] was solid, and he did a great job,” Kerr said. “He’s been doing a great job all year.” —Staff writer Alexandra J. Mihalek...
...things we want to say and also things we would be better off not having said. They let us know the things we need to know, and also things we wish we didn't. Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world. It's not surprising that we sheathe our words in politeness and innuendo and other forms of doublespeak. FROM THE STUFF OF THOUGHT BY STEVEN PINKER...