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...bumped from the flight rotation, what does? Nowak, of course, is through as an astronaut. Just as important, she's through as an icon-and she was a very good one. A 43-year-old Naval Academy graduate and married mother of three, she managed the demographic hat trick of career, motherhood and military. No buzz-cut, fists-on-hips Al Shepard or Deke Slayton was better suited to his era than Nowak was to hers...
...great deal of weight and seemed years older than only a few months ago. The young people behind me snickered. A man pushed a chair forward and told Tao Feng to stand on it. When he did and stood there in a posture of subservience in his tall paper hat, the snickers became uncontrolled laughter. Someone in a corner of the room stood up. Holding up the Little Red Book of Mao Tse-tung's quotations, he led the assembly in shouting slogans: ''Down with Tao Feng!'' ''Down with the running dog of the imperialists!'' ''Long live our great leader...
...captain Jennifer Sifers said, “we don’t get the chance to play anyone above us in the rankings. So it’s more important to focus within the ECAC.”Sifers led the way with her first career hat trick in a 8-1 win over the Dutchwomen (4-22-0, 0-18-0) on Friday night and sophomore Sarah Vaillancourt potted three goals of her own the next day in a 5-1 dismissal of the Engineers (12-16-1, 8-9-1). Eleven different players tallied points and all three...
...pucks were “just kind of finding the net.” He credited his teammates’ passes, then praised the bounces his stick produced.Such modesty can explain away one goal, or perhaps a lucky two. But Meintel knocked home four pucks—including a hat trick Friday night—as the Harvard men’s hockey team beat Union and Rensselaer at the Bright Hockey Center this weekend. Meintel’s outburst lifted him to second on the team’s scoring list with nine goals.Meanwhile, Harvard...
Ishmael Beahdoesn't realize it, but he's about to become a rock star. Well, the literary-humanitarian equivalent of a rock star. (I'll eat my hat if he does not meet Bono in the next 12 months.) Beah, 26, slight and handsome with a ready but wary smile, has written a memoir, and it's a doozy. Separated from his parents at 12 when rebel soldiers attacked his Sierra Leonean village, by 13 he was a child soldier and a drug addict. By 19 he was living in the U.S., at Oberlin College, in Ohio. In February...