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...return of nine swimmers on Sunday helped propel the Harvard women’s swimming and diving team from third place to first place at the ECAC Championships at Blodgett Pool. Harvard put up a team total of 648 points while Marist College finished second with 589.5 points. Just nine athletes competed for the Crimson during the first two days of competition, as the Ivy League Championships in Princeton, N.J., pulled most of the team away from Cambridge. “We have to have two teams because you can only take a certain amount of people to each championship...
...Positive Thinking, published in 1952. Both, he says, are popular for the same reason. "People are looking for very simple answers to relatively complex questions," Argenti says. "I don't think you're going to find it in a little red, gold or black book. But absent a deep dive into the subject or a tutorial with a world-famous practitioner or academic, this is not a bad way to get some instant information into your system." Full of cartoons and bite-size nuggets of advice, the books are aimed at people who watch TV rather than read. "They...
...records and NCAA qualifying times might be enough to down Yale, but do not always get it done versus Princeton. Led by record-breaking performances from junior Lindsay Hart and freshman Alexandra Clarke, the Harvard women’s swimming and diving team defeated Yale, 172-147, but fell to Princeton, 174-145, at this weekend’s annual double dual meet in Princeton, N.J. “You could tell everyone was putting everything they had into every race,” Hart said. “It’s great to have those times without resting...
...class that relays together stays together. Or so it appeared Friday evening, when the Class of 2007 led the Harvard women’s swimming and diving team (6-1, 5-0 Ivy) to a 161-74 trouncing of the University of New Hampshire (4-5) in the final home meet of the season. The seniors turned in impressive individual performances throughout the meet but saved their best for the last event, an exhibition 200-yard freestyle relay. Eight Crimson seniors, instead of the usual four, each swam a 25-yard leg of the relay to help the squad...
Even though the book’s immediate subject-matter, large-scale naval warfare, appears to be obsolete now, “Sea of Thunder” remains relevant to modern-day conflict. Twelve kamikaze pilots dive-bombed American ships during that battle—perhaps the first incident of Japanese suicide tactics in the war. Another 3,900 self-destructing flyers would follow suit within a year...