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Thirteen may be an unlucky number for most, but it was gold for the Harvard women’s swimming and diving team this weekend as it recorded its 13th straight meet win.Last year the Crimson (3-0, 3-0 Ivy) had an undefeated season and an Ivy championship. This year, it has started strong, winning its first two meets against Brown (1-1, 1-1) on Friday and beating Cornell (0-2, 0-2) and Dartmouth (1-1, 1-1 on Saturday.HARVARD 181, CORNELL 119HARVARD 189, DARTMOUTH 111Harvard finished the weekend with a dual meet against...
...Lots. For example, Leonor, the one just given to the princess born to Felipe, the heir to Spain's throne, and his former-journalist wife, Letizia. Lay-o-nor rolls off the Spanish tongue and has a right royal ring; a león is a lion, oro is gold. But frankly, a Leonardo would have been better. Maybe not to the thrilled parents, or the hundreds of journalists on goo-goo detail outside the Madrid clinic where the princess was born. But yes, the Spanish constitution would definitely have preferred un hombre. It says so in Article...
DIED. FERNANDO BUJONES, 50, the greatest U.S.-born ballet dancer of his generation; of skin cancer; in Miami. In 1974 the 19-year-old son of Cuban immigrants became the first American male to win a gold medal at the International Ballet Competition. But Mikhail Baryshnikov's defection from the Soviet Union quickly overshadowed Bujones' feat--and the pair's later clashes at the American Ballet Theatre led Baryshnikov, who became the group's artistic director, to fire Bujones in 1985. A sought-after guest artist, he danced with 60 companies in 33 countries, partnering with Gelsey Kirkland, Natalia Makarova...
...want to see J.P. Morgan's Cartier cologne holder, right, or William Randolph Hearst's buffalo-horn drinking cup, above? Come March, the bric-a-brac exhibit will shift from the first half of the 20th century to the latter, featuring, among other items, Elvis' most utilitarian bling--his gold Dunhill lighter...
Last season, the Harvard men’s and women’s swim teams compiled a stellar 18-0 dual record, took home two Ivy titles, and honored six All-Americans at season’s end. The women’s team earned Ivy gold for the first time since 1992, while the men reclaimed the EISL crown from Princeton...