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While most Harvard students are studying for final exams this weekend, Blake and his Crimson teammates will be spending the weekend at the NCAA Championships at the University of Georgia. After an upset of 12th-ranked Florida last weekend at the Region I tournament held at Harvard, Blake thinks the Crimson is in a position to do well in Georgia. He also looks forward to the individual tournament, which begins early next week...
...Representative Nydia Velazquez, 43, knows how easy it is for medical secrets to find their way out of a doctor's files. When Velazquez was running for Congress in 1992 to represent New York City's 12th Congressional District, someone got hold of hospital records detailing her 1991 suicide attempt and forwarded them by anonymous fax to the press. The New York Post broke the story, and Velazquez was forced to acknowledge publicly something even her family did not know: she had tried to kill herself with sleeping pills and vodka. Despite the painful publicity, she won the election...
...calligraphy for the obvious reason that we can't read it and so can only admire it, more or less ignorantly, as abstract brush drawing. And yet its range of expressive power comes through marvelously in this show. At one extreme we see the almost chiseled formality of the 12th century Emperor Hui Tsung's script, with its flicking exactness of stroke; at the other, the blithely spontaneous notation of the 8th century Zen Buddhist monk Huai-su, who liked to work when drunk on rice wine. And somewhere in between is the long-arm forehand and backhand...
McSweeney and Galluccio placed 10th and 12th, respectively, in the 1993 City Council election. When Councillor William H. Walsh resigned from the Council in 1994, Galluccio, not McSweeney, was given the empty seat because he received more of Walsh's transfer votes...
...Harvard looks as if they might be ready. The 12th-ranked team has been playing excellent team defense since the Duke game and junior Rob Lyng has been spectacular in goal. With 36 saves in Harvard's last two contests, Lyng earned himself a spot on last week's Ivy Honor Roll...