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...rebounded from a disappointing finish at Heptagonals to place 11th out of 37 teams—three spots behind last season’s finish. On the women’s side, the Crimson placed a few spots higher, finishing eighth in a field of 35, an improvement from its 13th-place showing...
...thus that, in his eighth decade, Tom Wolfe swapped his white suit for a less conspicuous blue blazer and set out on a tour of college campuses in search of Charlotte Simmons. "I went to fraternity parties," he recalls. "Very few of the students had any idea who I was. I was so old, and I always wore a necktie--I must have seemed somewhat odd to them." He trekked from Stanford to Ann Arbor, from Chapel Hill to the University of Florida in Gainesville. "The most valuable things were having people tell you about things like sex. I didn...
Harvard topped Cornell in consecutive ECAC quarterfinal games last postseason, ending the Big Red’s year. Cornell began this season near the bottom of the conference, ranked eighth...
...Willie Mays, racing back into the bowels of the cavernous centerfield at the Polo Grounds and reaching out to cradle in a 450-foot blast with his back to the infield? The ball was hit by Cleveland’s Vic Wertz in the top of the eighth of Game 1 of the 1954 World Series with runners on first and second and nobody out in a 2-2 game. Needless to say, the runners didn’t score. The Giants won the game, and went on to win the Series...
While the women’s team’s 135 points placed them sixth at the Heptagonal Championships on Friday, a men’s team frustrated by injuries finished in eighth with 180 points...