Word: heavyweights
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...that. He’s the type of guy that everyone’s drawn to.” A premed student, concentrating in Human Evolutionary Biology, O’Connor hopes to follow in the footsteps of former teammate Bode Ogunwole ’07, an NCAA heavyweight title contender in years past, who is now in medical school. O’Connor can now describe the feeling that guided him to Harvard and that will motivate him to continued success. “The one word that describes what Harvard wrestling has is ‘family...
...urged women to fight such a “stigma” and get active. “Recreation should be part of every woman’s life,” said Delany-Smith. Panelist Liz O’Leary, head coach of the women’s heavyweight crew team, encouraged women to join teams, saying lessons learned from playing a sport transcend many aspects of a woman’s life. “You learn how networking and camaraderie help you beyond your sport,” she said. “I learned as much...
...thought we did okay,” said Weiss after the final match on Saturday. “We have been in our heavy training part of the season with tough practices the past week.”The Crimson have also suffered from critical absences, with heavyweight wrestlers Spencer DeSena and Andrew Knapp missing with staff infections, as well as Corey Jantzen (141 lbs.), who remains out with an injury. Harvard knew going into this weekend that individuals would have to step up and have stellar performances in order to compensate for the absence of these grapplers. As they...
...widespread casualties among Palestinian civilians but failed to defeat Hamas or even stop the group from firing rockets into southern Israel. Nor did the assault manage to free a kidnapped Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, trapped inside Gaza for over 2 ½ years. "Nothing's changed," griped Roman Greenberg, a heavyweight boxer whose muscles bulged from within a pro-Lieberman T shirt. "And inside Israel, we had Arabs protesting against the war and waving Hamas flags. How can we accept that...
...truly unexpected event, though, came in the Outstanding British Film category. The inclusion of heavyweight Slumdog among the five nominees seemed almost unfair, as if Stephen Hawking were to show up at your local pub quiz. Everyone was so busy assuming that Slumdog would walk away with the prize, it took a moment to register when Sharon Stone announced that Man on Wire - the critically acclaimed documentary about Frenchman Philip Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers - had actually nabbed the BAFTA. The film's director James Marsh was so unprepared that when he hopped onto...