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...defeating the Eagles, the Crimson completed the day’s sweep of Boston area colleges. Earlier that day they handed the Tuft’s club team a 24-3 defeat...
...Crimson once again swapped victories in sabre and epee. Coming into the foil portion of the competition tied at nine, Harvard quickly fell behind 3-1. Co-captain Ben Schmidt’s three-bout sweep helped the Crimson charge back to win the event 5-4 and defeat...
Before Saturday, none of the Harvard athletes had ever lost an indoor dual or tri-meet in their careers. Cornell’s margin of victory made the defeat particularly stinging...
When Arlene Horwitz, 63, was diagnosed with breast cancer, she was determined to do whatever it took to defeat the disease. She endured a mastectomy, eight hours of surgery for breast reconstruction and months of chemotherapy. After all that, doctors felt one more treatment was required: radiation therapy. And that's when Horwitz almost lost her resolve. Not because it hurt. (It didn't.) And not because it was inconvenient. (It was; she had to show up at the radiation center every morning for six weeks.) The problem was emotional. "I could deal with everything else, but as crazy...
...series of jobs like oystering, landscaping, pumping gas. I was homeless. I slept in Laundromats or in cars. I was crashing at friends' houses. I'd sneak into my mom's house and sleep there. I didn't want to move back home; I didn't want to admit defeat...