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...week’s best performance for Harvard at cross country’s Heptagonal Championships last Friday. McLean-Foreman finished in second place with a time of 24:44.5 at Van Cortlandt Park in New York City, the race that determined the Ivy League cross country champion. For his efforts, he earned First-Team All-Ivy honors...
...Club Nike Grand Prix meets, he placed sixth in his 1500-meter heat with a time of 3:47.53 and seventh in his 800-meter heat with a time of 1:49.79. To put his times in perspective, last spring’s 1500 meter Ivy champion had a time of 3:46.63, and the 800 meter winner had a time...
...times were well matched. It was early 1943, and the Republic of China was struggling to resist the invading forces of imperial Japan. Soong Mei-ling, then 45 and the wife of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, happened to be in the U.S. for medical reasons. Seizing the opportunity to champion her country's cause, she summoned all her energy and flashing-eyed eloquence to the task of urging the U.S. to side with her embattled land. For five months Madame Chiang Kai-shek seemed to be everywhere: speaking at Madison Square Garden; traveling to San Francisco; talking on the radio...
...graduate schools, Semuels could focus an eye on the entire mental health picture at Harvard and intervene where necessary. With her former duties now parcelled out across the administration, no one has the vantage point that she did. And Harvard, of course, doesn’t have the committed champion for students’ welfare that it had in Marsha Semuels...
...while a toothy host lightly mocks them; an overdramatized countdown clock tick-tocks to build the pressure. But then there's the set: a life-sized homage to Barbie's Dream House. And the contest categories, which focus heavily on Cher and Liz Taylor. And the fact that reigning champion Maddy, the femme fatale brunet in the low-rider jeans and bust-hugging purple top, was born a man. Welcome to Pink, one of the most popular programs on GAY-TV, Italy's 24-hour satellite channel. "I want to show that gay people are not UFOs," Pink host Fabio...