Word: gideon
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...door opens onto a space of dark wood, coarse textures and handmade soaps. Here's the bathroom with glass walls; there's the bed of Frette linen, beside it an unglazed platter bearing (but of course) a single mangosteen. Yoga mats and aromatherapy oils proliferate in drawers like the Gideon Bibles of yore. And there are miserly arrangements of foliage. Fine hotels used to put out great urns of lilies; boutique hotels adorn your room with a single test tube, out of which springs a forlorn cutting of bamboo...
...dating back to early January. And for the team, it meant heartbreak and a lot of conditioning, as it showed the Harvard team where its physical condition needed to be.“We’ve got to work on our fitness,” senior co-captain Gideon Valkin said. “I don’t feel like as the match gets longer, we get more comfortable, which is how the fittest teams are.”Though the Crimson was up 3-2 after winning the doubles point and splitting the first four singles matches...
...sophomore Michael Kalfayan breezed past his opponent 6-1, 6-2, while at No. 5, senior Gideon Valkin crushed his opponent, David Alvarado, 6-2, 6-2 with bullet after bullet from the baseline. Valkin confounded all of Alvarado’s attempts to change the flow of the game with well-placed groundstrokes, often from well behind the baseline...
...Gideon is court savvy,” Fish said, “Once he gets any ball in the middle of the court he knows how to drive it hard enough to bother...
...secured with strong singles and, eventually, doubles play, Denenberg came out of his shell while maintaining the discipline that had brought him success. “By the end of sophomore year he had shown more commitment and support for the other players,” said co-captain Gideon Valkin, Denenberg’s doubles partner. “That’s a very big deal on our team. Slowly and surely he became more of a team man. By junior year he was a total leader. He was the role model of hard work; he showed great...