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...Harvard men’s tennis doubles duo of senior Ashwin Kumar and junior Sasha Ermakov reached the quarterfinals of the prestigious Polo Ralph Lauren All-American Tennis Championship at the University of Tulsa on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of last week, advancing two rounds past top-flight opponents in the 32-team, single-elimination tournament. The 38th-ranked pair, which usually plays at No. 1 doubles for the Crimson, earned a spot in the tournament by winning the ITA National Summer Championships in early August. In Kumar and Ermakov’s first match, they faced No. 12 Blake...
...fall. Along with Green, the squad includes four freshmen. The relative inexperience of the team makes tournaments like this extremely useful, and the players said they were pleased with their weekend’s work. Particularly encouraging was the play of freshman Agnes Sibilski. Playing in the top singles flight of the tournament, Sibilski won her first two matches, beating a seeded opponent as well as a fellow freshman from Yale. In the end, she went down to one of the tournament’s top players. Not only have the rookies on the team been impressive on the court...
...although there have been several attempts at establishing a legitimate top-flight professional league for women here in the States, each experiment has ultimately failed financially due to lack interest...
...this for a 21st century romance: Dr. Laura Minikel met Bent Balle on an airplane in 2000--she returning to the U.S. from practicing medicine in Africa, he escorting his parents on holiday from their native Denmark. Minikel and Balle chatted throughout the 11-hour flight and later met for coffee near her home in San Francisco before Balle returned to Denmark. They fell in love (through e-mail) and married in 2005 (in person), celebrating in four cities with friends and family. Are they happy? Yes. Are they together? Not exactly. Minikel, 37, remains in California to practice obstetrics...
...paraphernalia. The bulk of the profit from $20.08 T shirts (the most popular item) and other gear goes to the campaign as a donation. Baltes produces the goods and ships them to wherever Obama is speaking; last-minute events may find one of his employees scrambling for a flight with suitcases stuffed full of Obama swag. Other candidates have now expressed interest in Baltes' wares. But his loyalty--and business--remains with Obama...