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...Crimson’s sweep of the Tigers was all the more remarkable considering Harvard was swept by Ivy cellar-dwelling Penn (10-27-1, 3-11) on Saturday. In the same weekend, Harvard achieved the rare feat of tripling the loss total of the Ivy’s first-place team after tripling the win total of the Ivy’s last-place team—Penn went from one league win to three, Princeton from one loss to three...
...race was Harvard’s last before Eastern Sprints, the 15-boat regatta that is typically the Crimson’s most competitive of the spring. Despite its perfect record so far, Harvard is no heavy favorite, especially given that its first varsity pulled off the same undefeated feat last year only to be humbled by Wisconsin at Sprints, where the Crimson has not won the top race since...
With her 7-5, 6-3 victory at No. 5, Bajin finished 19-0 for the season in singles. But, although that feat was more unique historically, Bajin classified her first Ivy title as the greater achievement...
Thomas Merton, who accomplished the only-in-America oxymoronic feat of becoming a celebrity Trappist monk (his memoir, The Seven Storey Mountain, was a best seller in 1948), fathered a child out of wedlock before taking his vows; later, as a middle-aged hermit with a taste for bourbon, he had a brief love affair with a nurse. Walker Percy drank too much. Poor Flannery O'Connor, crippled by lupus, dead at 39, sometimes sounded alarmingly like a racial bigot...
...nonetheless a dazzling example of the power of politically charged cinema. Probably the most talked-about film of the year, Bowling for Columbine effectively condenses nearly a decade of American history into a digestible, moving meditation on the sources of American gun violence. That’s no small feat. Winner of this year’s Academy Award for Best Documentary. Bowling for Columbine screens...