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...ground for the pros. The current leader in the Formula One drivers' championship, rookie Lewis Hamilton, 22, first picked up speed piloting karts as an 8-year-old. And he's not alone, even on his Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team. Hamilton's teammate and rival at McLaren, current world champion Fernando Alonso, started out racing the mini machines too. In fact, almost all of today's Formula One drivers, as well as past greats like Brazilian Ayrton Senna and Germany's Michael Schumacher, owe a debt to the experience first gained in a small plastic bucket seat...
...like a boy." (Today, it's Yohji Yamamoto black leggings, black T shirt, charcoal ribbed cashmere sweater and a phenomenally oversize jeweled cross.) Partway through college at Sarah Lawrence, she left for Paris, presumably to study, but it was really to hang out with her then boyfriend, an Olympic champion. She waited to get married until she was "39 and 7/8," she says. "Just under the wire." It was while scouting for wedding dresses and finding nothing remotely up to snuff that her father said, "'These are really pretty ugly,'" Wang recalls. "He said, 'I'll back...
It’s been 18 years since a team repeated as Ivy champion, but no squad has appeared as poised to do so as Yale, returning 17 starters from last season’s titlists...
...football fan who’s paid a lick of attention to the first three weeks of college football this season would know, I-AA teams have made a real statement. A stunning 34-32 victory by Appalachian State, last season’s I-AA champion, over then-No. 5 Michigan was only the first of several victories by I-AA teams over I-A opponents so far this year. Nicholls State also downed Rice, while New Hampshire defeated Marshall...
...said. “We have asked a lot of them this past week...and they have come through with flying colors.” Harvard will rest for a few days before leaving the comforts of its home field to take on Loyola Marymount and the defending national champion, No. 9 UC Santa Barbara, next weekend in California. HARVARD 2, UMASS 1 With the exception of a late-game hiccup, Harvard put in a solid two-goal effort and got an impressive outing from goaltender Adam Hahn that proved to be enough for the win against Massachusetts yesterday afternoon...