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After winning a National Championship and the NCAA tournament’s Most Outstanding Wrestler Award, the list of Jesse Jantzen’s accomplishments now seems longer than a 19th century Russian epic novel...
...tinge of intrigue, the taste of victory, the pain of defeat. For close to 75 members of the Math Club and their guests, Pi Day is an epic quest for mathematical, as well as digestive, domination. 3.14159 (etc...), revered for its infinite mystery and natural frequency, is the reason why Math Club revelers are celebrating “a bad approximation” of pi on a snowy Friday afternoon. Though typically celebrated on March 14 at 3:14 p.m., the Math Club decided to settle with the inaccuracy of celebrating on March 12th at 3:12 p.m. because March...
...Harvard men’s tennis team fought tooth-and-nail against a nationally ranked opponent. And for the second day in a row, the score remained knotted at 3-3 with one match left on the courts, all eyes resting on the final singles players locked in an epic battle...
...Bobby Fischer Goes to War (Ecco; 342 pages), David Edmonds and John Eidinow tell the story of Fischer's most famous match, the 1972 world championship in Reykjavik. Fischer faced Soviet grand master Boris Spassky in a chess game that was not only an epic staring match between two intellectual gladiators but also the focus of all kinds of weird, free-floating cold war cultural-political energy. It was the Rumble in the Jungle and the Cuban missile crisis all rolled into...
...rival Laurence Olivier, for instance, had extramarital affairs with actresses Peggy Ashcroft and Dorothy Tutin, and relates a tale about Alec Guinness on a rack in a dominatrix's dungeon. But there is far more to the book, and to Gielgud, than dish. The scope of his life was epic; he lived from 1904 until 2000, working almost to the end - his last major film...