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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...high jump.The Currier House resident went on to throw a sixth-best, 35.20-meter discus en route to his eighth-place finish.“He competed awesome,” Harvard Coach Jason Saretsky said. “To do two decathlons back-to-back is no small feat. Particularly with this one where the weather was not cooperating.”Filling out the men’s side, junior Derek Jones clocked in at 47.99 in the 400-meter dash for 18th, rookie Dan Chenoweth’s 3:51.22 finish in the 1500-meter run earned...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Ladies Land Second, Men Gain Single Point | 5/19/2008 | See Source »

...Maladies, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. It was followed in 2003 by a novel, The Namesake, which was made into a movie by Mira Nair, and this year by another collection, Unaccustomed Earth, which debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list, an astounding feat for a book of quiet, formal short stories about the lives of Bengali immigrants and their children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jhumpa Lahiri: The Quiet Laureate | 5/8/2008 | See Source »

...celebrities like Natalie Portman, the occasional figure skater, and the offspring of oil barons, Harvard celebrities are an eclectic lot, tangibly unified by little other than their high friend counts, full inboxes, and a few blurry cell-phone images. But somehow they all have achieved the supreme feat of making others interested in their lives...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: Fame! | 5/7/2008 | See Source »

...good health can hold his breath for about two minutes, but with even small amounts of practice it is possible to increase that time dramatically. "The body can be trained," explains Dr. Ralph Potkin, a pulmonary specialist who worked with Blaine in the weeks leading up to his recent feat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How David Blaine Held His Breath | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

...ever get scared before you attempt a new feat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: TIME Talks to David Blaine | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

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