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Our life, said Pythagoras, "is like the great and crowded assembly at the Olympic Games," which is a roundabout, Olympian way of saying the Games are as full of terror and chaos as the lives they temporarily eclipse. On a less exalted level, in Atlanta's official fairy tale of...
Burns said she rowed for the first time shortly after arriving at Harvard in 1983. She continued rowing as a doctoral student in neuroscience at Cambridge University in England.
Now that the Olympics are over, Burns said she plans to return to her post-doctoral work and McLean's Hospital in Boston before focusing on her next obstacle--finding a job.
"It's really good sense of accomplishment," Burns said. "It's been a lot of work--I can't even begin to convey how much work and how much intensity we have put into this."
Burns' medal is the 70th won by a Harvard affiliate since the University's athletes took part in the first modern Olympics 100 years ago in Athens.