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...After securing the victory, Valkin tossed his cap into the air and walloped it with a forehand in celebration before limping over to shake his opponent’s hand. Harvard’s other two points came from dominant victories at No. 4 from junior Dan Nguyen, who won his singles match, 6-1, 6-1, without seeming to break a sweat, and at No. 3 from co-captain Scott Denenberg, who silenced the Wildcats’ biggest server, 6-3, 6-1. For Nguyen, the dominant performance in both singles and doubles continued a hot streak that stretches...
...toughest one and clearly it was too much of a break. But they look like they’re sharpening up.” Things looked to be heading in a negative direction, as injuries sidelined numerous top fencers, including freshman foil fencer Artemisha Goldfeder and senior saber fencer Dan Sachs. But the squad as a whole stepped things up a notch. The biggest surprise of the night came in the women’s epee: after falling 5-4 to Duke last Sunday, the team of sophomore Maria Larsson and seniors Jasmine McGlade and Precious Eboigbe dominated to pull...
This diaper-changing confessional genre--A Million Little Peepees--is of a piece with a trend in niched America: alternative media for parents. Alt-rockers They Might Be Giants, Lisa Loeb and the Del Fuegos' Dan Zanes make CDs for their aging fans' tots. The Rockabye Baby! CD series lulls Junior to sleep with covers of songs by the Cure, Radiohead and Tool. The stylish magazine Cookie is marketed to "modern" (i.e., urbane and moneyed) parents who would rather expose their children to Eames than Elmo. Babies may change your life, these media tell us. But there's no reason...
...their hopes for the future, many of these poets believe that poetry will never become a part of mass culture.“Real and deep engagement with poetry will always be something rare. Difficult art will be difficult no matter what the medium is,” says Dan Chaisson, a graduate of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and a widely published poet and professor of English at Wellesley College.“I would hate for [poetry] to be some market driven industry like fiction or visual art,” he says...
...display his grit and mental toughness in taking his second singles match of the weekend.“There were hecklers and whatnot,” Clayton said, “but I kept my cool, my teammates were cheering me on.”No. 5 Dan Nguyen also pulled through his share of adversity to reel in his second win of the weekend, defeating Peter Aarts, 6-7(7), 7-6(4), 1-0(4).Nguyen led a number of times in the first set, but lost in a potentially demoralizing tiebreaker. He had to beat back three...