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Harvard begins the season attempting to recover from the loss of four-time singlehanded champion Clay Johnson ’07 to graduation. The A-division team of captain skipper Kyle Kovacs and senior crew Elyse Dolbec becomes the Crimson’s new top tandem, in what Dolbec described as “a bit of a rebuilding year...
...toughest things in pro tennis today: he had consecutively defeated three of the world's best players: Andy Roddick of the U.S., Rafael Nadal of Spain and, most astonishingly, Roger Federer of Switzerland. But as the announcer at the Roger's Cup declared Novak Djokovic the champion, he introduced the young man as a native of Croatia, Serbia's less than friendly neighbor. That's like saying a Pakistani is an Indian or an Irishman an Englishman. Serbs all over the world bristled...
With the sun shining favorably on Saturday, the defending Ivy League champion and 15th-ranked Harvard men’s soccer team opened its 2007 campaign with a win against the defending Atlantic 10 champion, No. 22 Rhode Island. “This is a great win for us,” co-captain Matt Hoff said. “This is one of the better teams we are going to play all season.” Fifteen minutes into the second half, with the score locked at 2-2, Hoff collected a pass on the right wing from junior...
...mother of an11-year-old boy with a Mensa-level IQ and photographic memory, I have pushed for grade skipping and spent hours meeting with school officials to champion gifted-child programs in a long struggle to educate my son in a school that challenges him. TIME's revelation that money spent educating students with the highest IQs is a paltry 10% of the money spent educating students with the lowest IQs comes as no surprise to parents of gifted children. Gifted youth who have the potential to find a cure for cancer or get the U.S. back...
...Anzor Urishev of Russia in a shutout. In his match against China’s B. Huwatibieke in the wrestlebacks, Caputo relied on superior footwork at the edge of the mat to pull off a close 1-1, 2-0 victory. He then lost to 2007 Asian Junior champion Ali Rajabzade of Iran, suffering his second shutout of the tournament, 7-0, 1-0. Caputo, who had an All-American season last year—including a conference title at the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Championships—will lead the Harvard wrestling team as co-captain along with senior...