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Students once had to complete three unofficial rituals during their undergraduate career, the first and foremost being the "spraying" of old John Harvard. The second and most risque is to have sex in the stacks of Widener Library. The third and most aerodynamically challenging was for first-years to flip a pat of butter onto the ceiling of the Freshman Union. But with the relocation of first-year dining to Annenberg Hall--whose vaulted ceiling has made the feat almost impossible--a perfectly good threesome has been ruined. Obviously, Harvard students need something else to test just what they...
...loss to articulate the mechanics of her whirlwind style, Lipinski once said, "I just rotate." In a fairy-tale blue-and-yellow frock, she flew to the Anastasia sound track, whipping through her triple flip, exploding into a grin that dwarfed her 80-lb. frame and skating circles around everyone but Kwan. Then the 17-year-old veteran showed that having soul as well as legs counts. Kwan drew out the chords of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor into a smooth legato line as she flowed, left leg extended, straight toward the panel of judges. When...
...Bonaly, who might have been a contender, knew that judges have little appreciation for her muscular acrobatics. "The judges aren't pleased with anything I do anyway," she said. So, in her long program, she gave the judges figure skating's equivalent of the finger: an illegal back flip. Take that! It was a mandatory deduction, relegating her to 10th place...
Despite such strong ties to the literature of her youth, Sinott decided to leave "The Pokey Little Puppy" and other favorites at home where her three younger sisters may one day decide to flip through them...
...halfpipe (snowboarding's freestyle discipline) managed to go off without incident, as riders hurled themselves into the air before judges and the entire world. "Sticking" (landing) such "sick" (impressive) maneuvers as caballerials (backward 360[degree] rotations), McTwists (inverted 540[degree] spins) and Haakonsen's patented move, the Haakon flip (a 540[degree] with a flip), snowboarders showed everyone that rebels can be athletes...