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...players vary in the quality of their performance, both from individual to individual and within the play itself. The main characters are generally strong: Nguyen is a disarmingly pathetic and likable Wu Min, providing a strong character foil for Tan's marvelously cocky portrayal of Little Jade (whose self-assured manner and sexual self-confidence provides many of the play's laughs). But Borey, as a perpetually quiet and responsive Hawk, might add more to the play by being a more participatory and active central character. He's usually hard to read, and his portrayal of an innocent reacting...
Brown again started for Harvard, but this time she was unable foil the Vermont hitters. The Catamount bats came alive early in the second game, tallying six hits in Brown's two and one-third innings of work. Vermont put together six hits in the third inning, en route to scoring the only four runs of the game. Cupp came in for Brown, who was tagged with the loss, and provided three and two-thirds innings of scoreless relief, lowering her team leading...
...gentle presidential impostor. Since then we have probably seen more Presidents onscreen than, say, strippers and volcanologists combined. We have seen Presidents and ex-Presidents as the lead in a romantic comedy (The American President), as crabby partners in a road movie (My Fellow Americans), as an ambiguous foil for action hero Harrison Ford (Clear and Present Danger), as a work-obsessed '90s dad (First Kid), as battlers of alien invaders (Independence Day, Mars Attacks!) and, perhaps most disturbing of all, as Alan Alda (Canadian Bacon...
...defend our dining halls and often get a little defensive about food quality. Perhaps it's all just testimony to Harvard's brainwashing capacity (which is pretty damn impressive), but still, I do know people I wouldn't have known otherwise: the large people are friendly. Tapestries, plants, tin foil, and posters can do a pretty good job at disguising the interesting concrete motifs within our rooms. And where else would I live...
...side, Greg Chang and Michael Gattner were voted first team foil and epee respectively...