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...first time in a long while, the ball just wouldn’t take any Harvard bounces, and the Crimson fell 4-3 to No. 11 Virginia Commonwealth in the finals of the Blue Gray Invitational...
...DIED. SPALDING GRAY, 62, confessional storyteller and movie actor; in New York City, where his body was found floating in the East River two months after his disappearance. Cause of death has not yet been determined, but Gray had a history of depression, and police are investigating reports that he jumped off the Staten Island ferry. Born in Rhode Island, he moved to New York to join an experimental theater troupe after his mother's suicide in 1967. Starting in the 1980s, he created stage monologues on topics as diverse as the Vietnam War (Swimming to Cambodia...
...team with talent can win the easy matches, but it takes more than talent to win the tight ones. At this weekend’s Blue Gray Invitational, by locking up a 4-2 quarterfinal win over No. 35 Boise State and a thrilling 4-3 semifinal victory over No. 21 North Carolina, the No. 14 Harvard men’s tennis team showed grit...
...Ballantine; 271 pages), by Daniel Meyerson, Champollion was a dreamy, solitary kid who mouthed off in class, but as a schoolboy, he assembled a 2,000-page dictionary of Coptic, an ancient Egyptian language. Luckily for him, French soldiers in Egypt soon discovered the Rosetta stone, a chunk of gray and pink rock with the same text written on it in both Greek and Egyptian hieroglyphics, which no one had yet deciphered. Unlocking hieroglyphics was Champollion's great work, and Meyerson tells the story as a passionate linguistic love affair. After finally solving the mystery, Champol lion collapsed...
Fish pointed to the team’s lack of outdoor play and the varying match times as factors which have caused the Blue Gray to be a challenge for the Crimson in years past. Captain Cliff Nguyen added that unlike the squad’s recent trip to Bollettieri’s, for which the players left a day early and gained outdoor practice time, this excursion allowed for only a 30-minute practice and 30-minute warmup...