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...moving to the U.S. she won the 2004 national collegiate championship playing for Texas Wesleyan University. Golic downplays her potential role as the future face of table tennis. "I hope people enjoy the game--that's the most important thing," she says. "But if we can give them an extra something by looking good, there's nothing wrong with that...
Last week exemplified Penn’s recent struggles across the board. On special teams, Princeton blocked an extra point that would have brought the Quakers to within a touchdown, then ran it back for a two-point conversion of their own. The defense gave up big touchdown plays, and while playing injured, senior quarterback Pat McDermott threw four interceptions to cripple Penn’s offense...
...brother’s landlord’s sword was, or something like that—I found myself breathing a sigh of relief. Finally, after two long weeks of writing papers, catching up on reading, analyzing literature and pondering the prospects of finding life on extra-solar planets, it was over. All of my midterms were finally behind me, and in place of frantic studying, I could resume my usual activities of napping, editorializing, and trying to finish the Harry Potter series. At least until three weeks from now, when we all get the privilege of beginning to tear...
Under Cambridge's system of proportional representation, voters rank candidates in order of preference. Once first-place votes are counted, any candidate who has reached a predetermined quota is elected, and his or her extra votes are redistributed to the next candidate listed on each ballot. Candidates with the fewest first-place votes are eliminated and their votes are also redistributed...
Reese credits the rooming arrangement for a bit of extra friction over TV-watching privileges...