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Harvard has let in ten man-down goals in ECAC play and tallied six goals besides, a world-class ratio which puts the Crimson special teams at a net plus-eight on the season, tops along with Vermont. Wonderful stuff, the kind of performance that can brighten the light at the end of the mid-season tunnel almost immeasurably...
...member team, of whom only 16 are allowed to sail the boat during a race, was chosen from 678 applicants after rigorous tryouts. Among them: eight Olympic athletes, two women who sailed through hurricane-force winds and icebergs in the Whitbread, a world-class weightlifter who coaches the University of Washington Huskies football team, a native Hawaiian who sailed a 60-ft. canoe using Polynesian wayfinding, an aerospace engineer, and three mothers of small children. As impressive and eclectic as the women are, however, only two are experienced in big-boat match racing. By contrast, virtually all the members...
...former Defense Secretary is the very definition of dull, and as one big-state G.O.P. chairman says, "We saw with Bush that you need as much spark as heft if you hope to win." Cheney makes Baker look charismatic, and this ex-everything is a world-class fund raiser. Both Cheney and Baker will share a slogan -- "Bring Back the Grownups" -- but since their best credentials are outside the realm of domestic politics, they might not triumph unless a diplomatic or military crisis causes the party to value their foreign policy experience more highly. "Maybe the Islamic fundamentalists could take...
...Evening With Champions is an annual event featuring world-class and Olympic ice skaters...
Some tutors have suggested that few of Harvard's more senior faculty would be able to produce world-class scholarship while they administer an undergraduate house...