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...American fencing in Beijing also saw a silver medal in the women’s team foil event—a win that came as a complete surprise to most who follow fencing. Then again, even Harvard students unfamiliar with the sport might have been unsurprised at the win once learning that it belonged to Emily R. Cross ’08-’10, a member of the Harvard fencing team who has long proven her ability to perform under stressful conditions...
...front of a black and white television and watched Neil Armstrong take those first steps on the moon. As a kid I wanted to be an astronaut. I made my mom buy me Tang and TV dinners. I even dressed up my G.I. Joe figure in aluminum foil 'cause it looked like a space suit. That's part of why I think I'm a diver. You are, in a way, going into inner space. You're standing on the deck of the boat, ready to go down. There's hundreds of different people dressed in different colored uniforms, each...
...These three teams are just a sample of some great Crimson sports storylines to follow this year. Harvard’s also got plenty to offer in the way of stellar individual athletes. Senior fencer Emily Cross returns to Harvard after leading Team USA’s foil squad to silver in Beijing this summer and All-Americans J.P. O’Connor–a junior wrestler and the toughest 149-pounder you’ll probably ever come across–and Becky Christiansen–the Crimson’s record-smashing high jump queen?...
...first part, I got there, but I didn’t do so well.”Competing in epee solely on the individual level, Mills made it to the round of 32 before being eliminated, finishing 22nd. Cross made it to the round of 32 in the foil before succumbing to nerves and posting a 17th-place finish.“I think I was definitely overwhelmed,” Cross said. “There’s some kind of mental prep that you need, because there’s just so much at stake...
Whereas most male stars in the Saturday Night Live era (a line that stretches from Bill Murray to Seth Rogen) sport a louche, slackerish affability, Stiller often plays the less-than-pleasant comic foil: the tightly wound unhero who either gets on everyone's nerves (Dodgeball, The Royal Tenenbaums) or is the hapless pawn of domestic fate (Meet the Fockers, The Heartbreak Kid). As actor, writer or director, he knows something most Hollywood people don't: certain characters needn't be lap-dog lovable--if they're funny enough, the movies they're in can still be hits...