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...been training pretty hard with the coaches, both Kyle and I trained pretty hard. I wanted to win overall.”MIT NO RINGER INVITETwenty teams traveled to MIT on Saturday for the No Ringer Invite, a low-stress event that saw the peculiar pairing of Harvard and Wellesley as a dual-team. The combination finished in seventh place overall, with Wellesley’s Kira Treibergs and Cordellia Chansler steering A-division to a seventh place finish. In B-division, the Crimson’s freshman tandem of skipper James Fish and crew Ali Beyer earned Harvard...
DIED. Joe Niekro, 61, right-handed pitcher whose deadly knuckleball helped him to a career 221 wins in 22 seasons and who, with his knuckleball-hurling brother Phil, famously won more games than any other pair of brothers in major league baseball history; of a brain aneurysm; in Tampa, Fla. In 1976 the longtime Houston Astro hit his only career home run--against Phil, then pitching for the Atlanta Braves...
...time the inmates actually see and interact with one another. "It is awkward adjusting my voice from the necessary yell of the cell block to the face-to-face conversation in the yard," Rudolph writes. "Unlike me the Arabs don't adjust the volume." Rudolph describes how his neighbors pair up in their separate runs and then "walk the length of the cage in unison, back and forth, yelling as they go. If you've ever seen big cats at a zoo, this is what they do as well. They pace back and forth, rhythmically, like a pendulum. Across...
...Phuong. Like Lu, Phuong was ethnically Chinese but an immigrant from Saigon. In fact, both had initially wished to wind up in Australia—for the weather, of course—and had picked Canada, with its relatively lenient policy for sponsoring families, as their second choice. The pair was married in 1984, the middle of a decade that belonged to the local Edmonton Oilers. The franchise won five Stanley Cups in seven years, and Lu was sold on hockey as soon as a coworker introduced him to the game. When sons Kevin and Jonathan were born, they never...
...evident throughout the season. Only three teams have lived up to preseason expectations. Harvard, picked first, continues to be near the top, and Columbia and Dartmouth, picked last and next-to-last, respectively, are exactly where predicted. But first-place Yale was predicted to finish fifth (despite getting a pair of first-place votes) and Princeton was chosen sixth.Penn, the second-place pick, would be in that position except for the three overtime losses, and Brown, the third-place selection, has floundered since the graduation of star running back Nick Hartigan ’06, staggering...