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Norton also had a strong weekend as the 13th-seed. She won her first match with conviction, and then faced two three-set battles. She edged an opponent from Dartmouth 6-7, 6-3, 6-1, and then took down the six-seed, Vicky Brook of Yale, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3. In the quarterfinals, a tired Norton could not put up a big enough challenge, and she dropped the match...
Several members of the Harvard student-run non-profit, Circle of Women—which promotes the education of women in the developing world and has just finished building a secondary school in Afghanistan—were present at the event. Elizabeth K. Brook ’10, co-director of the organization, said she agreed with Kristof and WuDunn’s emphasis on incremental efforts, explaining that the cost of education and clean water can be covered for a student in their newly-constructed school with just $5 per month...
...forest and fjords, www.grosmorne.com, is home to moose, caribou, whales, eagles and black bears. Spend a morning hiking around the Tablelands, a slice of ancient ocean floor forced up when the continents of Africa and North America collided several million years ago. Then take a boat trip down Western Brook Pond in the isolated northern reaches of the park. Don't be fooled by the word pond: Western Brook is 10 miles (16 km) long. The journey through the jagged cliffs and cascading waterfalls will leave you feeling as though you've tumbled into The Lost World. Cabin and cottage...
Poised on the 25-yard line, the field goal would have been from 42 yards out—surely a difficult kick, but also a makeable one. But for Estes, the memory of Week 1 was still fresh. In the Bears’ season opener against Stony Brook, Brown’s kicker Drew Plichta was called on to hit a 40-yard field goal with time expiring. The kick missed right and the Bears fell...
After Michael Dougherty, the Bears’ previous quarterback and semifinalist for the Draddy Award (which Peyton Manning won in college), Newhall-Caballero is fairly untested but connected with Farnham for 121 yards on 12 catches in the team’s opening loss to Stony Brook...