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...yard freestyle followed a similar formula with Harvard's Steve Root keeping pace with Mitch Derrick of Princeton early on but eventually letting the Tiger swimmer pull out to a fifteen-yard lead. The Crimson fought back with John Blaney, out in lane seven, who slowly reeled in Derrick while a crowd of about 300 Princeton and Harvard fans were on their feet screaming wildly. On the final lap of the 40-lap race, Blaney and Derrick were even, but the Crimson fell short again, as Derrick touched in at 9:12.84, only .08 seconds ahead of Blaney, who swam...
Although she only introduced herself as Lisa, her fifteen minutes (plus) of "fame" have placed her firmly into the public's mind. Adding up "Lisa," "The Herald" and "sports reporter" did not take long...
...time to make the plays and win the game for the Crimson came with eight minutes left. At that point, evidently fed up with the game's slow pace, Brandeis and Harvard decided to make garbage time come early Fifteen of the last 21 points were scored on free throws--13 by Harvard...
...FIFTEEN years ago last month, James M. Fallows '70 published his essay "What Did You Do in the Class War, Daddy?" in which he described how he and his Harvard colleagues evaded the Vietnam draft. Fallows--a Crimson president and Rhodes scholar--starved himself until he lost enough weight to be medically disqualified from military service...
...Fifteen years ago, this peasant-based, uneducated Maoist group committed some of the worst human rights atrocities in recent (and long-term) history. Led by the radical Pol Pot, they overran the capital, Phnom Penh, in 1975 and proceeded to slaughter one in seven of their fellow citizens. Most city dwellers were herded into concentration camp-like "reeducation" communes in the countryside, better known as the killing fields...