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...defending Ivy League Champion Harvard softball team fell short of repeating last year’s success. Going for its second straight and fifth overall league title, the Crimson (25-22, 14-6 Ivy) finished its season Saturday afternoon against Princeton at Class of 1895 Field, falling 4-2 and 5-1. The Tigers (25-22, 18-2 Ivy) entered the series as South Division Champions and held the best record in the Ivy League. Princeton will continue on at the NCAA tournament. For three members of the Harvard softball team, Saturday’s games were their last. Although...
Nancy Gibbs compares the Pope to President George W. Bush and declares that "they share a taste for straight talk and simple truths" [April 28]. Bush may use straight talk, even if it's misguided, but "simple truths"? His Administration can hardly be credited with any such thing. She then quotes the Pope in relation to the pedophilia scandal, which he stated was "sometimes badly handled." Sometimes? And these men somehow espouse straight talk? Surely Gibbs jests. Peter Edelson, NEW YORK CITY...
...odds with the law. Though the FDA allows the sale of raw-milk cheese that has been aged for 60 days, it doesn't permit the sale of raw milk over state lines. Six states allow the sale of raw milk in stores, and 28 let consumers buy the straight stuff only on the farm where it is produced. In the rest, raw milk exists only on the black market...
...Down 5-2, the Crimson responded quickly in the top of the fifth. Reliever Russ Lloyd walked three straight Harvard batters to open the frame and senior Jeff Stoeckel and freshman Dillon O’Neill each knocked two-run singles to put Harvard up 6-5. Stoeckel, who also played solid defense at shortstop, reached base three times in his final game in a Crimson uniform...
...Starting to get a little worked up, I paused a moment, and then looked Rumsfeld straight in the eye. "Sir, I cannot believe that you didn't know I was being left in charge in Iraq...