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...team in the 200 free relay, where her Crimson team won by a minute. Mulkey was preceded in the relay by junior Emily Wilson, senior Kim Linsenmann, and Lee.Harvard’s other entry in the 200 free relay —which saw sophomore diver Samantha Papadakis made her swimming debut this season in closing leg of the relay—finished third. “She was so excited,” O’Connor said. “Someone even had to clarify that it was the same person who was in the diving events...
...Harvard also received incredible performances from sophomores Lindsay Hart, and Samantha Papadakis, and senior Erin Mulkey.Hart captured the 200-yard backstroke and the 200-yard individual medley.Papadakis won both diving events, the one meter and three meter. In the three meter, she was neck and neck with a Kansas diver through the first four rounds, but pulled away during the final two.“[Papadakis] is extremely talented,” Davidson said. “She really stepped up and did a great job.”Mulkey captured the 100-yard freestyle and anchored the winning...
...scores by more than 200 points. In 1993, even Harvard was found to have overstated its SAT scores by 15 points. Furthermore, a large component of the U.S. News rankings—25 percent—are peer rankings. In the November 2005 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, Colin Diver, the president of Reed College, said that some schools routinely rated their peer institutions into the bottom tier so as to propel themselves upwards. A proliferation of rankings without peer evaluations might lead colleges to more honestly evaluate other institutions...
...Admiral's Cup race about two miles off the coast of Cornwall last week when the keel snapped off and the craft capsized. The singer and five of the 24-man crew were trapped in an air pocket below deck, where they waited for 40 minutes until a navy diver helped them swim to safety. "I feel very lucky to be alive," says the unsinkable Le Bon, a sailor since childhood. "I still love the sea. This has not put me off sailing for one moment...
...terrorists' rampage was an airplane: TWA Flight 847, helplessly ferrying its 153 captives around the Mediterranean after being taken over by two Muslim Shi'ite extremists. The U.S. endured 17 days of prime-time humiliation before the last 39 American hijack victims were released. One American, Navy Diver Robert Stethem, was killed...