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Instead, when the No. 20 Tigers pulled out a 31-20 upset over No. 2 Tennessee, the answer to an enigmatic college football season was still missing. Colorado? Nebraska? Oregon? Hell, how about Maryland? Actually, forget Maryland...
...awards since matriculating at Harvard, but at Phillips he attended MOSP (please, the “s” is silent) —the Mathematical Olympiad Summer Program hosted by the U.S. Math Team (“as important as Olympic athletes”) at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. “We did math about 40 hours a week,” he states proudly...
Zimmerman, who was born in Nebraska to college-professor parents, says she had her formative encounter with the theater at age five or six, when the family was living in London. One day, in the woods near their house where she used to play, she stumbled on a local summer-theater troupe rehearsing A Midsummer Night's Dream. "I knew they were pretending. I wasn't fooled," she says. "But it was the act of pretending and the fact that adults were pretending that was stunning to me. I call that my primal scene...
Like Taymor's theater work, Zimmerman's harks back to these innocent, childlike reactions. "I'm from Nebraska, and Willa Cather is the great Nebraska author whom I've ignored until this age," she says. "But in [Cather's] Song of the Lark, there's a character who says she will never be the artist she was as a child. I have very much that same feeling: that the ability to take something banal or simple and make it into something else is a skill that is in the realm of childhood...
...Adam was a standout receiver at Nebraska,” Murphy said. “He’s been asking for chances to catch the ball. I might have to start listening...