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Trailed by a throng of ecstatic teammates, co-captain Jeremy Lin leapt and ran up the wall at the near end of Lavietes Pavilion. It was an appropriate celebration for Harvard’s superhero, who had just come up huge in the clutch yet again...
...didn’t do too much different, we just executed better,” said Harvard captain and defensive lineman Carl Ehrlich. “We came out in the first series, and they made a couple big plays on us. We played on our heels a little bit. The second half, we got ready in the locker room, we got focused...
WORCESTER, Mass.—Catching his breath in front of his own basket, guard Jeremy Lin clapped his hands once, twice, three times. The Harvard co-captain needed no words in urging his teammates to get back on defense while silencing an enemy crowd of over 3000. He let his game do all the talking. Lin had a game-high 24 points—including a dunk that sparked an 18-3 run midway through the second half—to lead the Crimson (1-0) past Holy Cross 87-77 at the Hart Center Friday night...
...Christine] was kind of our captain for the meet,” said Harvard assistant coach Matt Davidson. “She set the tempo for the girls…The biggest part of our success was Christine’s Kaufman—her swimming and her leadership. She set the tempo in and out of the pool. She’s absolutely unbelievable...
...story of U.S. Airways Flight 1549 is practically an American folktale: a miraculous emergency landing into the Hudson river, with Captain Chesley Sullenberger the hero in the cockpit. But journalist William Langewiesche takes a different view of the aborted Jan. 15 flight, which Sullenberger guided safely into the water after the Airbus 320 struck a flock of geese near LaGuardia Airport and lost all power. A Vanity Fair correspondent and former professional pilot, Langewiesche has written the most detailed account yet of the short flight, Fly by Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson. He spoke with...