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...most people.” Captain Jennifer Harlow led the Nordic team with a 31st place finish in the women’s 5K free in 21:29.8, contributing to a ninth-place finish for Harvard in that event. Harlow also clocked in at 39:08.8 in the 10K classic, landing her a spot in 32nd. “All in all, you can see that our best women’s performances came from Jennifer Harlow,” Graves said. “That’s not a bad start for her. She will definitely get faster...
...fingers just walk on the keys. A tennis player tries to make his shots so well that he knows where they’re going.”COLUMBIA CLASSICThe Crimson sent co-captain Scott Denenberg and sophomore Chris Clayton to New York to play in the Columbia Classic, another three-day event that ended on Sunday. The tournament featured tough competition from some of the best players in the Northeast, and Fish felt that Denenberg and Clayton would benefit from the challenge.“That was the level of play that they both needed,” Fish...
...remembered by. His family, friends and professional associates all seem to share that opinion. They expect that after decades of acclaim as a craftsman, Neil Simon may finally come to be regarded as an artist. Says John Randolph, who plays Simon's grandfather in Broadway Bound: "It was classic, that opening night in Washington. He spent all these years waiting for some critic to recognize that he is a major, important, serious playwright, which this play proves. And as soon as he had a copy of a review saying that, he was absolutely overcome...
...this enthusiasm, the usual biases seem to be absent. Old fogies like me are reaching for the classics and so are young guns; 300, the film about Thermopylae, is based on a graphic novel. Conservatives sup at the classic cup; Victor Davis Hanson, a scholar of ancient warfare, is Dick Cheney's favorite historian. (One of the lessons of the Peloponnesian War, Hanson writes, is that "resolute action" brings "lasting peace." Ah, yes.) And liberals seek succor from the ancient texts too; it is easy to read Harris' novel on political intrigue in Ciceronian Rome as a critique...
...first, embossed with the Marine Corps' seal, is titled Small-Unit Leader's Guide to Counter-Insurgency. The second is the small green notebook in which he records details of meetings with his Iraq counterpart, General Samir. U.S. commanders plan to employ classic counterinsurgency tactics rediscovered by the U.S. military through a bitter process of trial and error in Iraq. One question they face, though, is whether Washington has learned those lessons too late. Another is whether the Iraqi government and security forces on whom the new strategy crucially depends are actually part of the problem...