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...world,” you should collect it until you have enough to pay for an LSAT tutor. Remember, you can’t put “fulfillment” on a resumé, and all the fun in the world won’t get you a first-round interview. You’re a Harvard student now; the world is your oyster. Sell...
...team handball, the sport in which Jorg Nowitzki played for the West German national team. Or toiled in his family's housepainting business. But a member of West Germany's 1972 Olympic basketball team, Holger Geschwindner, discovered the gangly teen in Wurzburg and groomed his raw talent into the first-round draft pick of the Mavericks...
...William and Mary, defeats that prevented Harvard from earning a top-16 seed in the NCAA tournament. Harvard entered the tournament 18-6, ranked No. 17. The Crimson’s first-round opponent was No. 43 Purdue. The Boilermakers had never made it past the first round, but they handled the favored Crimson in a 4-2 decision, leading to Harvard’s second first-round upset loss in three years. On the individual side of the ledger, Wang fell in the first round of the NCAA singles championship and the Anderson/O’Riain combo...
...Union.The Crimson picked up only three points in the standings, earning a tie in Schenectady and a win against the Engineers at home but losing the other two contests.Harvard finally turned things around with a pair of overtime wins against Brown and Princeton.But in order to clinch a first-round bye in the ECAC playoffs, the Crimson needed to play exceptionally well over a nine-day period against the top four teams in the conference.Facing an uphill battle, Harvard delivered. Though the Crimson dropped the first game of the set with a 4-1 loss to Colgate, Harvard upset...
...might not have been the storybook ending that she wanted, but a first-round loss in the doubles draw of the NCAA Championships this season didn’t take the luster off co-captain Melissa Anderson’s career accomplishments. In 2006, Anderson and junior Elsa O’Riain finished 31-7 and took a No. 3 ranking into the championship tournament, the highest ranking ever for a Crimson doubles team. Anderson finished 21-3 in singles matches during Harvard’s dual meets, earning her Second Team All-Ivy honors, and her performance...