Word: bunche
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...walked away from the regatta with All-New England honors as a skipper as well as the Senior Award, honoring his talent and sportsmanship. To top it all off, Kovacs was named the New England Sailor of the Year. “It was pretty exciting. There were a bunch of really good sailors, and we’ve been really close all year,” Kovacs said. “It’s sort of nice to get the recognition when you put a lot of time into the sport.” Although Kovacs racked...
...finish, matching the daily low round on day two. Shore tied for 10th and Shuman for 20th. “Danny’s played well,” Shore said. “He’s been the low finisher a couple times. He put together a bunch of great rounds. He has a solid overall game.” A win at the Ivy Championships was certainly the ultimate goal, and, after success in the spring, it did not seem to be so far out of reach. “I think we’re kind...
...point is, while we are stuck in the Harvard bubble, it is easy to become so wrapped up in personal goals that we forget to smell the proverbial roses, or read overhead signs carved in stone. A competitive bunch by definition, Harvard students spend much of their time involved in rivalries with their peers over social status (joining a final club or standing adamantly opposed to them), over academic achievement, over recruiting for that summer internship at JP Morgan, or over leadership positions in student organizations...
...think that a movie portraying their dynamic, increasingly prosperous Central Asian nation as a bunch of anti-Semitic, incestuous, pimping backwoods peasants would annoy the people of Kazakhstan. But try telling that to Dariga Nazarbayeva, daughter of President Nursultan Nazarbayev and one of Kazakhstan's leading cultural figures. Nazarbayeva - an accomplished mezzo-soprano who runs one of her country's TV networks - says that nothing before or since the tiny nation emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union has given Kazakhstan anything like the recognition generated by Borat Sagdiev. That would be Borat, the comic alter ego of British...
...sooner had this weekend's battles of Michigan, Florida and Puerto Rico come to an end than whispers began to trickle in once more that Clinton will continue to try to pile up marginal delegates to compel Obama to consider her for the number two spot. "There are a bunch of women out there," said one member of her team, "who won't vote for him otherwise...