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...Native American writer, born fragile and poor on a destitute Indian reservation, published an essay, "The Blood Runs like a River Through My Dreams," in Esquire. It earned a National Magazine Award nomination and was later expanded into a memoir of the same title that became a finalist for a PEN/Martha Albrand Award. That rez-to-riches tale of courage and redemption sounds like a Horatio Alger story, doesn't it? It should be a movie. Or at least an episode of A&E's Biography. Of course, I'm biased, because, well, it's my story. Kind...
...give them a course that puts everything in terms of AIDS and cancer—mostly AIDS,” Mehta says. “And that does make it interesting—for short periods.”Mehta, who was a 2005 Intel Science Talent Search finalist with a project in bioengineering, and who enrolled in the course to fulfill a concentration requirement, says the course does not meet the needs of students who already have significant science backgrounds.“I feel like since half of the freshman class is in it, and not all entered...
SCHENECTADY, N.Y.—One good thing doesn’t always lead to another. Despite having earned a series split in hostile territory against last year’s NCAA finalist North Dakota over winter break, the No. 13 Harvard men’s hockey team sputtered on offense—especially on the power play—against an unranked Union team on Friday night at the Messa Rink. Although the Crimson fared well on faceoffs, winning 59 percent of them, that success seemed to be the only positive note on a dismal night for the Harvard...
...defensive back Jay McCareins finished sixth in the voting, and Brown linebacker Zak DeOssie, who missed part of the stretch run with an injury, came in 16th. The last Ivy player to receive votes in the Buchanan Award chase was Harvard linebacker Dante Balestracci, who made the 16-player finalist group in both his junior and senior seasons. New Hampshire coach Sean McDonnell took home the Eddie Robinson Award, which is awarded to the I-AA coach of the year. McDonnell led the Wildcats to a 10-1 regular season mark and a No. 1 ranking in the final poll...
...leader on the team.” Leading by example is nothing new for Bassi. She was an NCAA qualifier for the Lady Volunteers in 2003, the same year she came away with a silver medal at the 2003 Pan American Games. Last year, she was a finalist at the Olympic trials. But while it would be great to make it far on a national stage, Bassi’s focus right now is solely on the Crimson. “Our team was ready to swim fast, and I’m glad that we were able to turn...