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...speakers, freshman swimmer Matthew McLean was carried around Blodgett Pool on a stretcher for a post-meet victory lap. However, the defeat of the Bears was significant in more ways than the simple maintenance of a perfect record. The contest was also the Crimson’s Iron Man meet. The Iron Man is a freshman swimmer or diver selected by his peers who must compete in every heat of every event for the day. The layout of this year’s matchup meant that 2009 Iron Man McLean swam 4250 competitive yards in under two hours...
...didn’t shoot foul shots well, we didn’t take care of the ball, and if you don’t do those things in a game like this, you’re probably not going to win.”BIG MAN ON CAMPUSLin ended the night as the team’s leading scorer, but junior center Doug Miller had one of his more dominant stretches in a Crimson uniform when he scored on four of Harvard’s first six second-half possessions to pull his team to within one with...
...damage done. The city, an aging steel town of about 12,000 an hour west of Philadelphia, usually records about two arsons per year, according to the police. But last year there were 15 reported arsons, including one in October that killed an 83-year-old woman. One man was arrested in connection with that fire, and two others were charged with other fires around the same time, but police told reporters they have no suspects in the latest wave of blazes. (See the top 10 crime stories...
...about to celebrate change with the rest of the country, sending Adams to Washington to attend Barack Obama's Inauguration, sex reared its head again. On Jan. 11, Breedlove sent a text message to Willamette Week reporter Nigel Jaquiss, who had persisted in pressing the younger man to speak on the record. Wrote Breedlove: "I'm scared. If the story goes to print without me saying anything, I'm worried I will look like a scumbag. If I do say anything, then Sam's fate is in my hands." (Read a 1956 TIME story about another scandal in Portland...
...worst offending name was mine." Wiener (pronounced Wee-ner) is one of Oregon's most influential political consultants and a former - and now disheartened - campaign adviser to the protagonist in this political soap opera. That would be Sam Adams, the new mayor of Portland and the first openly gay man to lead a major American city. Then there's Bob Ball, an openly gay local real estate developer who once had mayoral ambitions himself. In 2007, Ball hinted that Adams' mentoring relationship with a former legislative intern, Beau Breedlove (now 21), was, in fact, a sexual one that had begun...