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...predictable: the humble beginnings of the plucky, plain little waif from Nowheresville, the chance discovery, the lucky break, the pieces of a fabulously successful and lucrative career magically magnetizing together. (For a lengthier and smarter consideration of this topic see the late David Foster Wallace's "How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart," an extended review of Austin's Beyond Center Court: My Story collected in Wallace's Consider the Lobster.) And they have a funny mirrors-within-mirrors, mise-en-abyme effect: they pull back the smooth glossy surface of familiar images and show us the rough, grainy verso. Despite...
...Kultgen said. For Start, Go!, the Battle turned out to be a surprisingly auspicious beginning. Chris Powers, the singer, song-writer and guitarist for Start, Go! said their first performance together was exhilarating but not perfect. Powers, a senior computer science major at the Extension School, broke a guitar string in the middle of a song. He had a spare, but he didn’t realize that guitar’s jack was broken. He finished the set with the broken string. The glitch did not prevent Start, Go! from securing the prize.The same thing happened to Elephantom. Pianist...
...did” is but one example; take The New York Times, which, in its euphoria, claimed that Obama’s election broke “the last racial barrier in American politics.” To be sure, it was momentous, but we are not past the problem of race in Washington. When it comes to race, gender, and other areas, government continues to be diversity-deficient. As long as the country remains hesitant to elect Latinos, Arab-Americans, or others, we will never be able to declare that we have broken that last racial barrier?...
...went ahead thanks to a beautifully worked goal from the two strikers. Stamatis fed the ball into Akpan on the left edge of the box, who one-touched the ball back into the path of Stamatis, and the senior tucked it into the near post. With the assist, Akpan broke the all-time assists record.Ten minutes into the second period, Akpan set another Harvard record and put the Crimson two goals clear. A long throw-in from the right side was headed on, finding sophomore Dillon O’Neill, who headed it onto the crossbar. Akpan was the first...
...feeling really nervous…I really didn’t know what to expect,” Chijoff-Evans said. Despite opening up with an uncharacteristic two double faults, he quickly managed to overcome his nerves. Harvard’s tandem fought off an early threat and broke the opposing team’s serve three times on its way to the win. “The Denver guys broke back one time,” said Harvard coach Dave Fish ’72. “But Chris and Lexei pretty much shut them down...