Word: homeric
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Justin Nyweide (0-1) matched UCLA junior Rob Henkel (3-1) pitch-for-pitch in the first game's early stages, holding the Bruins scoreless for three innings. In Game Two, Harvard held leads of 2-0 and 4-2 before Rick Lyons capped a Bruin rally with a homer off senior closer Derek Lennon (0-1) in the final frame...
Birtwell left in the third after Scott's leadoff double led to another run, but freshman Kenon Ronz didn't fare much better in relief. He gave up two-run jacks to Atkins in the fourth and Shelley in the fifth. Dan Baken gave up the Bruins' fourth homer of the game before Mike Dryden and freshman T.J. Sevier cooled the offensive explosion with an inning of scoreless relief each...
Down 2-0 in the seventh and final inning, the Crimson mounted a late comeback as junior Mairead McKendry drilled a solo homer to pull Harvard to within...
Never mind, for the moment, that this definition could, with a little tweaking of emphases, apply equally well to Homer's Odyssey, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The R.W.A. is not indulging in literary criticism here but rather offering its 8,200 members a blueprint for success in the contemporary marketplace. Because the people who find the keenest emotional satisfaction in romance novels tend to be their authors and publishers. More than half the mass-market paperback fiction titles sold annually in the U.S. are romance novels. Factor in hardback sales...
...become the social centers of campus. These elitist secret societies will never be able to become central to Harvard life. They are exclusive organizations in an inclusive environment. Final clubs throwing house parties are like the Wicked Witch of the West trying to win Miss Congeniality. It's like Homer Simpson trying to lose weight. Or pre-meds trying to pretend they have a life--the shoe simply doesn't fit. And when you try to be something you're not, you usually end up failing, comically...