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...scratch the bottom. Yes, it's surprising, isn't it? The laser looks through the clear bit, so we assume that's the delicate side. But actually, because of the way they're made - you start off with this lump of clear plastic and then you stick the foil on it, and then you stick a label on top of that - it's much thinner on the label side than it is on the other side. If you scratch the clear side, you can kind of polish it out. But if you scratch the label side, you're screwed. This...
...captain Emily Cross, a 2008 Olympic silver medalist with Team USA, won 21 out of 24 matches to qualify for the semifinal in the foil division. Cross lost a gritty 8-7 match to eventual champion Doris Willette of Penn State to finish in third place and earn her third career All-American selection. Cross also represented the fourth Crimson fencer of the tournament to make an event final four, setting a new Harvard fencing record...
...Silver impersonator; it was obviously Ron Silver. The one who was Rhoda's neighbor in the spin-off of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and the one who had blown the doors off the Barrymore Theatre in Hurlyburly. The one who'd played Joe Mantegna's foil in David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow (a role that won him a Tony Award in 1988) and the tortured and outrageous Alan M. Dershowitz in the 1990 film Reversal of Fortune...
...That was great,” Crimson co-captain Emily Cross said. “Noam and Maria have been very strong consistently throughout the season. It wasn’t a surprise, but still good.”Cross earned a win of her own in the foil, as the second-seeded fencer led after each of the day’s three rounds and went 10-1 in the final pool.“It’s a long day, and I haven’t been fencing all that much recently,” Cross said...
...hands of Penn in the Ivy League Championships. Although they were yet again unable to top Penn, they finished the day in second place with a record of 59-28. While the results of the saber squad (13-15) were not exactly ideal, the sound performance of the foil squad (21-8) and the first place tie by the épeé squad (25-5) helped alleviate some of the disappointment, as the team proved that it can still contend with the top programs in the Ivy League. “This may have been the men?...