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Friday, March 18. Pig Iron Theater Company presents Hell Meets Henry Halfway. Saturday 2 p.m., both nights 7 p.m. Loeb Drama Center, Experimental Theater. Free. Tickets available at Loeb Drama Center box office...
...course, that in itself proves nothing. But think back past the games themselves to the months leading up to the opening ceremonies in Athens, and focus for just a moment on the political wrangling by the U.S. Olympic Committee to field a halfway decent men’s basketball team or to ensure that any other high-profile athletes would compete for their country. Don’t forget that Shaquille O’Neal, Kobe Bryant, and Kevin Garnett all ultimately declined to play for the red, white, and blue...
There was the four-point loss at home to Cornell, when Harvard let a lead slip away late in the second half. There was the three-point loss in Hanover to Dartmouth, when a last second three pointer from senior guard Kevin Rogus went halfway down before rimming out. There was the two-point loss at Columbia, when Stehle’s desperation tip hit off the side iron. And then there was the one point loss to Yale in New Haven, when three bids at the game-winner in the final thirty seconds went for naught...
...when one friend suddenly left her university halfway through the year to enroll at a local college, I was taken aback. Never before had it occurred to me that there might be more to the story than what I was seeing. I would later learn that in spite of the upbeat entries posted in her online journal, there had been problems—that in spite of the smiling faces and spontaneity carefully captured in her photographs, she had been secretly unhappy...
...ultra universe has another twist: women have a physical advantage. Pamela Reed whipped Karnazes to win the 2003 Badwater Ultramarathon, a 146-mile annual jaunt through the furnace of Death Valley, Calif., that ends more than halfway up Mount Whitney and reduces many ultras to roadkill. "It isn't the power that comes into play, it's your ability to go long distance. That's where the curves get closer together," says Dr. Lewis Maharam, medical director of the New York City Marathon. Ultramarathoners eventually burn fat, and women have a higher percentage of body fat than men do, giving...