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...When the ball came in again, it was batted around several times before Quaker guard Kevin Egee found it along with a straight pass to the basket. Lin fouled him intentionally with 17 seconds left and Egee hit both shots as his team toughed out a wild...
...Subtler Second. From the depiction of high drama as his father taught it, Wyeth has narrowed down to the moments when life is charged with change, swapping N.C.'s clash of cut lasses for his own clap of distant thunder. Sometimes it is only the tragic twinkle of quaker ladies, blossoming while he watches and fading in the frosty dew of early spring. Disciplining the romantic inside him, he has sought the ever-subtler second when existence is galvanized by the unexpected...
...meter diving, the Crimson took the next five positions. Sophomore Marissa Ash finished just a point out of first place, followed by sophomore Jenny Reese, freshman Leslie Rea, sophomore Anne Taylor and freshman Jessica Stanchfield. Reese handily won the 3-meter diving competition, finishing 25 points ahead of Quaker Melissa Gardel.Additional event winners for Harvard were freshman Hilary Roberts in the 200-yard butterfly, sophomore Kay Foley in the 200-yard backstroke, and junior Natalia Festa in the 100-yard butterfly. The Crimson swam the day’s final event, the 200-yard freestyle relay, as an exhibition...
...Nixon's life was defined by a me-vs.-them resentment. In his mind, the 1960 presidential campaign was the battle of a Quaker poor boy, son of a grocer, against a Catholic rich kid, son of the whiskey merchant, and little Whittier College against mighty Harvard. (Yet after that very close election, which Kennedy won with some questionable vote counts in the crucial state of Illinois, Nixon overruled his aides' urging that he contest the result, saying that any delay in naming a new president would tear the country apart.) He felt scarred by outsider status even when...
...cider doughnuts was waiting to take them to the Holy Cross Abbey in Berryville, Va. While all the students were Christian, it would be their first Mass at a Catholic monastery. The trip marked the end of a 10-week series of visits to different churches--from Baptist to Quaker--sponsored by Shenandoah's spiritual-life team, which oversees religious activities on campus, to help students find a good religious match. "In terms of looking at churches," says the group's co-leader, the Rev. Don VanDyke Colby, "it's speed-dating...