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...would-be-writer, opting not to take part in John H. Updike ’54’s Lampoon, David L. Halberstam ’55’s Crimson, or Norman K. Mailer ’43’s Advocate. It was when he was eight years out, in 1999, after a stint as a critic at the Village Voice, that Whitehead began to make noise with the release of his first novel, “The Intuitionist,” which follows a black, female elevator inspector during a time of racial integration. Cameron Leader-Picone...
...secret that in the world of Ivy League sports, most student-athletes will never set foot on a professional playing field in more than a spectator's capacity. Academics come first in the Ancient Eight, and because of that, the level of competition just isn't as high as it is in some other Division I athletic conferences...
...nightcap, rookie starting pitcher Conner Hulse kept Harvard in the game with a gutsy two-run, eight-inning performance, and captain Harry Douglas gave the Crimson its second win of the day with a walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth...
...Crimson would never have been in a position to win in the first place had it not been for Hulse, who spread five hits and three walks over eight innings, striking out seven batters and making just one costly mistake—a fastball left too high in the zone that Yale slugger Trygg Larsson-Danforth blasted over the right-field fence for a two-run shot...
...losing 21 House seats, eight Senate seats and the White House in November weren't bad enough, the GOP hasn't exactly thrived in its first few months as the party of opposition...