Word: finish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard's five-person chess team--composed of Jacob Chudnovsky '01, McClelland, Nicholas J. Proudfoot '99, Matthew L. Bluestone '01, and alternate Charles R. Riordan '01--spent Dec. 26 through 29 at the championships and returned to Cambridge with a third place finish...
...pretty good legacy," he said adding that this year's third place finish exceeded expectations. The team was seeded fifth going into the championships...
Needing a 1-2 finish in the I.M., Harvard took no chances by putting junior standout Nancy Jo and freshman sensation Liz Baxter in the line...
...gave good leeway in case I did bad- ly on one of the papers or didn't have time to finish one," Kridler said...
...must be nice to have that kind of I.Q.," Starr says wistfully. "Doing well academically...but not having to spend all that terribly much time doing it. You know the tortoise and the hare? I'm the tortoise, moving along slowly, and hopefully getting across the finish line without getting run over." Then the independent counsel chuckles, gives one of his mild, impenetrable smiles and adds a few quiet words that make it clear this tortoise-and-hare business involves more than study habits. "It is dangerous crossing the road...