Word: championed
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...Monday and yesterday in Brewster, Massachusetts. The Harvard squad featured captain D.J. Hynes, senior James Cleary, junior Tom Hegge, and two freshmen, Michael Shore and John Christensen. The Crimson shot a combined 627 over two days of competition to finish 11th out of 45 teams, 35 strokes behind tournament champion, the University of Rhode Island. Hynes stepped up in his role as captain to record the Crimson’s best individual performance with scores of 75 and 74, while finishing tied for eighth overall at five over par. In the tournament overall, scores were higher than average...
...even heavy rain could dampen the spirits of the almost 4,000 people who flocked to the Bright Hockey Center on Friday and Saturday nights for Eliot House’s 36th annual ice-skating charity benefit show, “An Evening with Champions.” Skating celebrities and up-and-coming talents from the Boston area and throughout America donated their time to raise money for The Jimmy Fund, which supports efforts at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to fight children’s cancer. This year’s Evening co-chairs Kierann E. Smith...
Many skaters scheduled to perform in this weekend’s benefit show, An Evening With Champions (EWC), will eschew the Charles Hotel for “Hotel Harvard” and spend their weekends as guests in the upperclass Houses. “Some skaters stay in hotels and some on campus,” said Sasha D. Kukunova ’08, one of the liaisons between EWC and the skaters performing in the show, who is in charge of organizing this weekend’s housing. This year, EWC was able to obtain eight hotel rooms...
Combining Hurt’s performances with its outstanding defensive play, the Leopards are on the fast track to repeating as Patriot League champions. A victory over Harvard can solidify Lafayette’s at-large credentials to get in the Division I-AA playoffs, even if the team later loses the automatic bid that goes to the Patriot League champion...
Edward R. Murrow had a greatvoice--a sincere and authoritative baritone. His speech was formal and literate. He was a liberal in the great American tradition--less an ideologue than a champion of fair play and common decency. The first thought you have, watching Good Night, and Good Luck in the age of Limbaugh and O'Reilly, is one of intense nostalgia. By the standards of modern television--or even television in his time--Ed Murrow was an imposing figure...