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...prepared to take my fair share of the Green Revolution on my shoulders. I am less keen on having it in my face.' PETER MANDELSON, Britain's Business Secretary, after an assailant threw green custard on him to protest the construction of a third runway at London's Heathrow Airport...
Coming off Sunday’s 17-inning victory against Princeton, Harvard (7-18, 5-3 Ivy) begins its quest for its third Beanpot Championship today against Northeastern (14-10, 5-4 CAA). The contest, slated to begin at 3 p.m., will be played at Campanelli Stadium in Brockton, Mass. and will determine which of the teams play for the championship on Monday—against either Boston College or Massachusetts—at Fenway Park. If recent history between the two teams is any indication, this year’s game will be a close one. The opening-round...
...games...but] we honed in there and hit them late.”HARVARD 7, CORNELL 5After the Crimson came all the way back from a 4-0 hole with five runs in the bottom of the seventh inning, the Big Red reclaimed the momentum in the seventh when third baseman Nathan Ford smashed a game-tying home run the opposite way to right field off of Harvard freshman reliever Jonah Klees.But if Cornell had any ideas of taking the contest into extra innings, Stack-Babich had other plans.The right fielder stepped into the batter’s box after...
...five innings, scoring three runs in the fourth and five in the fifth to jump out to a commanding 8-0 lead. But the Tigers halved the Crimson’s advantage in the sixth, stringing together four hits and a walk with two outs and a runner on third to make the game 8-4.Both teams went scoreless in the seventh and eighth innings, and Princeton trailed by four heading into the ninth. The Tigers’ Dan DeGeorge led off the ninth inning with a home run, but rookie reliever Jonah Klees, who had entered the game for Zailskas...
...Third, an overly scientific approach to politics makes even the most colorful characters appear gray. Former House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills was an alcoholic who cavorted with an Argentinean stripper—you couldn’t make him boring. Yet, John Manley comes close in his research, outlining the theory behind “Congressional influence” instead of letting Mills illustrate it: “When one thinks about power between A and B there is a tendency to view the relationship as unidirectional,” Manley intones. “With influence...