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...further) when I went to dinner at a teacher's house one night and discovered that the teacher's mother - a city social worker - was a Hyakunin Isshu fan. She humored me by asking me to recite the beginning of one of the poems to see if she could finish it. I proudly trotted out the third poem, in which the 7th century Kakinomoto no Hitomaro uses the metaphor of a mountain pheasant's dragging tail ("The long tail/ of the copper pheasant") to evoke the wistfulness of a long, lonely night. The elderly Mrs. Ueda picked up without hesitation...
...anything much before then. Her main creative outlets were scrapbooking and making elaborate Halloween costumes. But the dream was so vivid that she absolutely had to write it down. Then she kept on writing. She wrote the entire story of the young woman and the vampire from start to finish. That story became a young-adult novel called Twilight, and she followed it up with two sequels, New Moon and Eclipse. Together the three Twilight books have sold more than 5.3 million copies in the U.S., 4 million in the past 12 months alone. They've spent a combined...
...first since 2004. Harvard ends the 2008 season with an overall record of 15-6—7-0 in Ivy League play. As the final record showed, the whole team had a hand in the victory. “We’re really happy they could finish with a 7-0,” coach Dave Fish ’72 said. “That just makes everybody feel good. As a coach, seeing them work so hard, I’m happy to see things fall their way.” However...
...restriction from eating crucial carbohydrates the night before the race, as part of her observance of Passover. Along with her fellow runners in the Harvard College Marathon Challenge (HCMC), Levenson—a self-proclaimed “casual athlete”—not only managed to finish the 26.2-mile course, but also raised money in the process for the Phillips Brooks House Association and Project HEALTH. “It was fantastic, it was so much fun,” Levenson said. “The crowd was the best part, by far. Wellesley was especially...
...javelin.Dara Wilson’s 14.39 time in the 100-meter hurdles was not only good enough to win the event, but it also qualified the junior for the ECAC Championships. Classmate Shannon Flahive and rookie Jessica Fronk rounded out the top-three with 14.73 and 15.79 finishes, respectively.Junior Favia Merritt notched a first-place win in the 100-meter dash, crossing the finish line in 11.98 seconds. Senior Danielle Mirabal finished close behind in the event with a time of 12.05, while junior Brittan Smith completed the event sweep with a new personal-best 12.14 finish.The trio...