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...property.His son, Morgan, the Harvard baseball player, busied himself hammering nails. Hopped up on iron supplements—to get the blood count up, of course—Morgan, Alstead’s favorite son, was vulnerable, restless, and down. He had been an endurance guy: a high school champion on the local cross-country scene, in sneakers and on skis. A Junior Olympian. An All-American.“I really believe that if Morgan wasn’t here playing baseball,” says Joe Walsh, his Harvard coach, “he?...
...finals. Although Grigg ultimately fell in five games to her younger teammate, as a seventh seed it was surprising that she had made it there at all. Even though Grigg had reached the finals in 2005’s tournament, she had to go through two-time Individuals champion Michelle Quibell of Yale early on, in the quarterfinals. Quibell’s only losses this season had come to Lorentzen—once in the Crimson’s 5-4 win in New Haven, and once when Quibell defaulted in the Howe Cup tournament. Heading into the individual tournament...
Summers never was this kind of “champion.” Summers' managerial failing was not that he tried to empower the Right or defeat political correctness; rather, it was that he wasn’t afraid to say he knew best to a collection of entrenched, intelligent professors. Students loved this facet of Summers because we agreed with what he was saying for the most part, especially about the improvement of undergraduate education. But even the most visionary leader has to be willing to compromise and play the political game some of the time. It?...
...five flights is among the best in the country—Grigg’s appearance in the finals was slightly unexpected. Heading into the tournament, the expectation was that Sunday’s final would be a rematch between Lorentzen, the No. 1 seed, and two-time individuals champion Michelle Quibell of Yale, seeded No. 2. Lorentzen, who postponed her enrollment at Harvard to train and play internationally, had already beaten Quibell twice this season. The first time was in five games in the Crimson’s 5-4, Ivy title-clinching win at Yale...
Junior Siddharth Suchde’s whirlwind 2006 tour has come to a close. After having an undefeated team season, Suchde was seeded as the No. 1 player in the nation coming into this weekend’s CSA Individual National Championships and fell to three-time defending champion Yasser El Halaby of Princeton, 3-0, in the finals. “It was fitting that it was Sid and Yasser,” said captain Will Broadbent. “They are the two best college players in the nation.” Suchde shut out every opponent...