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...captain Chris Clayton said. “After reading period and exams everyone is hungry to get out and play.”Harvard did more than simply compete, though, posting a 15-13 singles record and a 9-8 doubles mark against National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics national champion UAM and a talented Marist squad.“[The invitational] went great,” Harvard coach Dave Fish ’72 said. “Most of the team did a very fine job against that high level of competition. It’s a good starting...
...meets and we’re getting excited because it’s home. We want to go out and show them that we’re a really strong force.”The Crimson will try to dethrone the defending Ivy champion Tigers in a matchup of the league’s only undefeated teams. Competition starts at 6 p.m. on Friday.“I’m really confident going into it,” Clarke said. “I think this is the first time since I’ve been here that...
...chairman of the Senate Banking Committee from 1995 through 2000, Gramm was Washington's most prominent and outspoken champion of financial deregulation. He played the leading role in writing and pushing through Congress the 1999 repeal of the Depression-era Glass-Steagall Act that separated commercial banks from Wall Street, and he inserted a key provision into the 2000 Commodity Futures Modernization Act that exempted over-the-counter derivatives such as credit-default swaps from regulation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). (See who's to blame for the current financial crisis...
...Tours coinciding with the first night of a full moon culminate in Mepantigan, a performance created by taekwondo champion Putu Witsen Widjaya that integrates martial arts with Balinese folklore, shadow puppetry and fire-eating. It's highly entertaining, but Green School doesn't need to go to such lengths to impress. The thoughtful design is diversion enough...
...television's most famous odd couples appeared on the ABC show Fantasy Island: Herv Villechaize as Tattoo and Ricardo Montalbn, 88, as Mr. Roarke--two dream makers at a remote resort in the Pacific. Montalbn, a champion of Latinos in the entertainment industry, founded the advocacy group Nosotros...