Word: heartbreakingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Besides climbing Newton’s notorious Heartbreak Hill, Anne R. Levenson ’09 faced another daunting hurdle as she ran yesterday’s Boston Marathon: a restriction from eating crucial carbohydrates the night before the race, as part of her observance of Passover. Along with her fellow runners in the Harvard College Marathon Challenge (HCMC), Levenson—a self-proclaimed “casual athlete”—not only managed to finish the 26.2-mile course, but also raised money in the process for the Phillips Brooks House Association and Project HEALTH...
...song rescues the album from any potential accusations of snobbishness as its naked emotion carries the listener along brilliantly. Just as good is “My Year in Lists.” The song, which clocks in at just under two minutes, is again a tale of heartbreak, combined with mockery of New Year’s resolutions and pen-pals. The chorus, “So put on every winter coat that you’ve owned since ’98 / And every midnight sees the countdown to another awful day / I cherish with fondness...
...first game of yesterday’s doubleheader against Cornell seemed like just another kind of heartbreak for the Crimson, whose lineup put up five runs against Big Red pitching but could only watch as Cornell shortstop Scott Hardinger’s walk-off triple sent Harvard to a 6-5 loss...
...begins this month, Harvard students would do well to remember that baseball-team allegiances cannot be so credibly and honorably fabricated as, say, their recent enthusiasm for Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy. These loyalties spring from years of careful attention, affection, and devotion, season after season of heartbreak alternating, regularly but unpredictably, with triumph. These are bonds formed not only over the course of a lifetime, but inherited intact from generations that have gone before...
...best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the euphoric feeling of victory, the bittersweet heartbreak of loss. It was the sense of camaraderie, the injuries, the morning lifts, the grueling hours of practice, the games, the fans, the atmosphere...