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...Red—much like the Crimson—struggled during its non-league games, but have recovered to record four Ivy wins without a loss. Among its victories in 2007 has been a four-point win at Princeton, a preseason favorite to take home the Ivy crown...
...Harvard team,” said Crimson coach Dave Fish ’72.HARVARD INTERSESSION INVITATIONALFacing opponents from Boston College, Marist, and Princeton, Harvard excelled in singles and doubles throughout the three-day tournament, winning in the finals in both events on Monday.Co-captain Gideon Valkin took the crown in singles, beating the Tigers’ Peter Capkovic, the top-seeded player in the tournament, 7-6, 2-6, 6-4.“It was a very big win,” Valkin said. “I was the underdog, but I knew that I was good enough...
...colt galloped into the nation's hearts in May, with a stunning, six-and-a-half-length win in the Kentucky Derby that had the racing experts shouting Triple Crown. But two weeks later, his race toward the sports pantheon was abruptly halted, when he shattered his right hind leg at the start of the Preakness, inspiring a nationwide vigil. He was saved, but never out of danger: one day ready to sprint out of that Pennsylvania veterinary hospital that suddenly became a center of the sports world, the next day yet another setback. The emotional wave has finally crashed...
...those graduates is Verone Kennedy. Although coincidentally we have the same last name, our lives could not have been more different. Verone was born in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, a tough neighborhood best known for its racial tension in the early 1990s. His father ran a dry-cleaning store and struggled to break even. His mother was the director of a social-services center. "Lots of people had guns or knives," he says. "You had to think twice about where you were going and what you were wearing." All he will say about the schools of his youth is that they...
...while apprenticing with a mentor principal in an existing school. After graduating with 76 others, Kennedy was offered the opportunity to start a new middle school, the Granville T. Woods School for Science and Technology, known as MS 584, in one of the poorest and most isolated areas of Crown Heights. At a time when principals were being held increasingly accountable for student test scores and only 18% of the entering students were reading at grade level, it was among the city's most difficult assignments...