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This past weekend, the Harvard Table Tennis Team sent three of its best players to the 2010 College Table Tennis National Championships in Waukesha, Wisconsin for the first time in four years. Although the trip was not subsidized and the players had to pay out of pockets, they were still happy to attend the three-day tournament, which hosted over 250 table tennis players from more than 40 different colleges and universities...
...Waiting for the Sunrise He was born Lester Polsfuss (the family soon simplified the name to Polfus) in Waukesha, Wis., 18 miles west of Milwaukee. Encouraged by his mother, he learned piano, guitar and harmonica. His curiosity led him to all sorts of precocious experiments, like poking new holes in player-piano music to make new melodies, or, at 13, disconnecting a console-radio speaker and attaching a phonograph pickup. He bought his first Gibson guitar, an L-5 acoustic, which he promptly electrified. In local performances, he wired his guitar to radios stage right and left - voilà, stereo...
...obtain decent credit. One's work and savings history became one's credit rating. Why should we bail out lenders unless they can perform reasonable risk assessments? Lenders once insisted that consumers demonstrate a responsible financial history before lending. What has happened to this commonsense approach? Susan Staudt, WAUKESHA...
With his decision, Morgan also ends his gymnastics career, one that he has shared with his brother since they were boys growing up in Waukesha, Wis. "This has been an extremely hard decision for me to make," Morgan said in a press conference in Beijing, where he appeared with the entire men's gymnastics team in a show of support. "I have given everything I can to compete in this Olympic Games. To get here and not be able to perform because of an injury is extremely disappointing, but at the same time, I'm a team player...
...studded with peanuts. A boy from Holland, told he would sleep in the "bunkhouse," what the family called their add-on bedroom, was visibly relieved to find that it wasn't, as in his Dutch-English dictionary, a toolshed in a field. Larilyn Carpenter, 56, a school principal in Waukesha, Wis., treasures the memory of her Brazilian "son" Luciano's tearing around outside her house late at night, rolling in his first snowfall. "I went from window to window watching him," she recalls...