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Sophomore Kart Siilats--the Estonian national champion--gives Harvard the best high jump tandem in the country. Sillats leap of 1.84 meters in the first meet of her Harvard career in December places her fourth on the NCAA performance lists...
...leave a gym feeling like sports are the Way and the Light as well as Life, the Universe and Everything. Maybe they are, if a couple of hours of action can make people leap out of their seats with jubilation or plunge them into speechless despair...
...additional burden of making a mythological film about a beautiful half-snake, half-human without the aid of digital special effects. Ang's solution: to glue live snakes onto a cap worn by his exceedingly cooperative leading lady, 17-year old newcomer Pich Chanboramey. "Sometimes the snakes would leap off her head," the director recalls, "and we'd have to chase them around...
...fact, the President probably owes thanks to Card, who, apart from his apparent willingness to fall on his sword, has, perhaps inadvertently, shown the administration the path to take on these two controversial topics - and that similarly touchy issues should be subject to more of a look-before-you-leap examination in the future...
...collection of high-rises overlooking the sea, Tripoli's architecture consists mostly of the dull and functional. But the corniche is wide, well paved and clean, with cafés and colored parasols and some children's toboggans, jungle gyms and a merry-go-round. With an epic leap of the imagination, one can almost be reminded of the French Riviera - except that the promenade looks out only onto Tripoli's sleepy harbor...