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...Harvard fencing team is met with high expectations for the winter after last year’s storybook season...
...years ago.”Three years ago, the four of them were together, clad in gold and crimson, crashing a party held by heavyweights.They rang in an era with a win at Camden, and this year they have the chance to finish it off in the same place.A storybook ending, after all, is the only appropriate complement to the storybook beginning. —Staff writer Aidan E. Tait can be reached at atait@fas.harvard.edu...
...Sanse, which has become essentially an airy, upscale barrio of one of Europe's most dynamic capitals. "We have a well-educated population, a vibrant town and almost full employment," says Holguera. San Sebastián de los Reyes appears to be but one sunny page in Spain's storybook economic transformation over the last generation. What was once a diffidently autarchic appendage to the Continent has become an important economic locomotive for all of Europe. Spain's economy grew 3.4% last year, over twice the euro-zone average, and is expected to best the average again this year...
...might not have been the storybook ending that she wanted, but a first-round loss in the doubles draw of the NCAA Championships this season didn’t take the luster off co-captain Melissa Anderson’s career accomplishments. In 2006, Anderson and junior Elsa O’Riain finished 31-7 and took a No. 3 ranking into the championship tournament, the highest ranking ever for a Crimson doubles team. Anderson finished 21-3 in singles matches during Harvard’s dual meets, earning her Second Team All-Ivy honors, and her performance...
...what seemed at first like a storybook ending for a homeless child was actually the prologue to a far more complex tale. SaBreena, a tall, serious girl, had an explosive temper. A few months after her speech, she shoved a classmate's head through a school window and broke another girl's jaw on the bus, all in one week. And after she moved in with the Juarezes in the summer of 1998, she repeatedly ran away. "We did not believe that was the same girl that spoke at the church. It was like, no way," says Stuart. Nevertheless...