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Just a day after being shut out by a top-ten team, the Harvard’s hope to redeem its first weekend of play rested on the back of its least experienced player, freshman Alistair Felton...
...training differently, it’s just attention to little things.”Indeed, a break from training for finals period had little impact on any of the Crimson, as seniors Sasha Ermakov and Michael Kalfayan, sophomore Alexi Chijoff-Evans, and freshmen Alistair Felton and Davis Mangam claimed winning weekends. In addition, the 2-1 singles performance of rookie Robertson McAnulty and 3-1 doubles results from co-captain Kalfayan and sophomore Will Guzick reflected a consistently high level of team play.“Everything is a team effort,” Clayton explained. “Pretty...
Last October, when British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Finance Minister, Alistair Darling, unveiled their emergency intervention to recapitalize U.K. banks, they did so in front of a capacity crowd in the oak-paneled suite of rooms at 10 Downing Street, which are used for the Prime Minister's press briefings. At this morning's sequel performance, when Brown and Darling presented their new emergency plan to try again to get banks lending, journalists were outnumbered by their hosts and attendant staff. In just a few months, the prospect of the government spending billions of pounds of taxpayers' money...
...enough for Cooke that PBS viewers in America, and BBC listeners around the world, considered him a spirited, spirit-lifting member of their families. His Letters broadcasts often began with remarks about the view from his Fifth Avenue window, and letters from many countries, which bore the address "Alistair Cooke, Overlooking Central Park," ended up in his mail box. The man who knew everybody had the knack of making millions of strangers feel they knew him. That's the talent of a politician more than a journalist. But as The Unseen Alistair Cooke reveals, the man was no rabble-rouser...
...adopted by the public as a surrogate uncle or next-door neighbor, Cooke could be distant from his own domestic life. His 1934 marriage to Ruth Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson's grand-niece, ended in divorce, and he showed little interest in their son John. The Unseen Alistair Cooke shows a home movie the father shot of his six-year-old son's train set, but the footage is all about the toy trains; young John's role was excised before shooting. When his stepdaughters from his 1946 marriage to Jane Hawkes joined a London cult called The Process...