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...Davis turned in perhaps Harvard’s gutsiest performance at No. 6, showing resilience after dropping the second set 5-7. The rookie suffered an early break, but responded with four straight games to put the match out of reach. With a 6-2, 5-7, 6-3 win, Davis capped a storybook senior day with a dominant showing from all classes, a victory made even sweeter following a February team loss to the Big Green...
...courage. In 1981 he secretly entered Siberia to document a Soviet facility converting illegally hunted whale meat into feed for animals at a fur farm, evading the KGB and the Soviet Navy in his subsequent escape. Actor Martin Sheen calls him “one of the gutsiest guys on the planet” and the Dalai Lama has gifted him a statue of Hayagriva, a wrathful Hindu deity who strikes down his evil foes...
...nomination. T.R. could see that his primary delegates plus delegates from renegade factions elsewhere had left him about 70 votes short. His aides noisily challenged the legitimacy of scores of Taft supporters, but when it became clear that he could not win, T.R. executed one of the gutsiest maneuvers in the annals of American presidential campaigns: he denounced the Republicans as thieves and bolted the convention...
...Brookhaven Country Club in Dallas will open its doors next month to one of the gutsiest college tennis doubles teams in the country when Harvard juniors David Lingman and Mark Riddell travel there to compete in the ITA National Doubles Championship...
Last weekend, the Harvard men's hockey team finally hit bottom after giving away a two-goal lead in a 5-4 loss to Clarkson on Friday. But in a dramatic turn of events, the Crimson turned in one of its gutsiest effort of the season against No. 15 St. Lawrence the next...