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...much closer in foil. After Gideon Yaffe's initial loss, Adam Sussman and Chris Okumura came up with wins in the first round. In the second and third rounds, Yaffe's sweep wasn't enough as Sussman and Okumura fell, giving Navy...
...foil, the score was a little closer. After falling behind, 2-1, early, Harvard's Gideon Yaffe and Chris Okumura each managed to win his bout. The next two, however, were won by the Quakers. Adam Sussman tied the match, 4-4, in the eighth bout by coming back from a 4-1 deficit to win. Unfortunately, in a close bout, Gideon Yaffe lost the final bout...
...Princeton foil-fencers, led by their captain Tom Thliveris, soundly defeated the Crimson, 6-3. All three Harvard foil-fencers--Adam Sussman, Gideon Yaffe, and Chris Okumura--were 1-2 for the day. "Their best man [Thliveris] was better than any of us," Okumura said. "But overall, I think we had more talent...
Working with Gideon Ariel, an Israeli ex-Olympic athlete and computer expert, Braden has wired people and fitted out his tennis courts with high- speed cameras, sensors and other gadgets that feed data into computers. His goal is to discover what really happens while an athlete is in action, and to use that knowledge to improve performance. An example: although Braden is a foremost advocate of top spin in tennis, he has proved, contrary to conventional wisdom, that tennis players who roll their racquets "over" the ball to impart top spin not only waste energy but also unnecessarily risk "tennis...
...afraid that the economics of the situation has much more to do with it than the music," says Gideon Toeplitz, vice president and managing director of the Pittsburgh Symphony. "The conductor needs sex appeal." Conductors themselves are well aware of the new realities. "Most orchestras today go for someone who is well before the public eye to assure ticket sales and recording contracts," says Leonard Slatkin, 44, who recently re-upped with the St. Louis Symphony but has not closed the door to a draft...