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...Thomas noted that Christensen might start with a 1.75m jump at the Texas Southern Relays to be qualified for Regionals. In the meantime, she can rest easy. After Friday’s historic jump, Christensen has moved into an elite class of Harvard high jumpers—including Dora Gyorffy ’01 and Kart Siilats ’02—to be named All-Americans in the indoor and outdoor seasons. Now she can shake off the winter chills, rest her foot, and look to improving on Friday’s success in the spring season...
...best going into the outdoor season.” With her success at Arkansas, Christensen moves into an elite rank of Harvard high jumpers who have received All-American honors in both the indoor and outdoor NCAAs. Only two other Crimson women—Dora Gyorffy ’01 and Kart Siilats ’02—have accomplished the feat. “She’s earned it,” Saretsky said. “She’s worked incredibly hard. She’s earned that spot to be in the same conversation...
...Driving into the city, I see one of the many new concrete blast walls that have gone up since my last departure: there seeem to be miles and miles of these walls, circling off some of the most violent neighborhoods, like Dora and Amiriyah. They keep sectarian militias from marauding freely through the city, as they did before the surge. In many places, artists have painted huge murals on the walls, mostly scenes from Iraq's history, stretching back to the time of Hammurabi. The purpose is to make the walls seem less oppressive, but it also has another, unintended...
...Lokus may have opened a whole new chapter of recklessness. The 20-year-old restaurant manager was living safely in Ankawa, a Christian town in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq, until April 2006, when he began chatting over the Internet with Miriam Eliasan, an 18-year-old Christian girl from Dora, one of Baghdad's most dangerous neighborhoods. After six months of trading photographs and sweet nothings, he decided that he could no longer live without her. So he drove all the way to Baghdad, where, after getting caught in a firefight between militants and American soldiers, he met Miriam...
...that happens on a computer is a metaphor for something real in life, it becomes very, very murky as to what they're actually getting out of this." There are also troubling commercial aspects to a lot of games for preschoolers: they're basically ads for branded characters like Dora the Explorer and Ariel the mermaid. And Thomas points out--in the nicest way possible--how pathetic it is that I want people to think I'm a cool...