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Chief among those departures was center Jan Fikiel, who, despite his penchant for setting up outside the arc on the baseline and hurling threes, stood a full two and three inches taller than Danley and Zoller, respectively. That height is important in a league that boasts 6’10 Yale center Dominick Martin and 7’0 Harvard center Brian Cusworth. The Quakers currently have no true centers, or any player above 6’8 on their roster, making those matchups with the Crimson and the Bulldogs potentially tenuous...
...rivals sat more than four goals and five points behind. All season long, Altchek’s 6’2 frame served as the center of the Crimson’s offense. Much of the strategy revolved around his ability to win balls in the air with his height and strength. Next year, the challenge for the rest of the league will be to contain Altchek, while he will have to work as a senior to not let the added pressure keep him from scoring. Altchek was also named to the First Team All-Ivy squad, while senior forward...
Thursday night pep rallies may be fairly unprecedented at Harvard, but in Texas, even the Pecan Springs Elementary cheerleaders use their Thursday nights to pump it up. The cheerleaders, who range “roughly two to four feet in height,” brought a crowd to its feet at their Blackshear Elementary audience at a recent rally, The Austin Chronicle reported. Not even home turf...
...Institute of the Arab World, the "Golden Age of Arab Sciences," concentrates on the period between the 8th and 15th centuries, when most of Europe was struggling to emerge from the Dark Ages. As this exhibition, which runs until March, demonstrates, that's when Arab scholarship was at the height of its own Enlightenment. The show focuses on a period when the Arab empire stretched from India to Spain and caliphs, like Al-Ma'mun in Baghdad, set up centers of learning that attracted the best minds of the age. In Baghdad, around 825, Al-Khwarizmi wrote a mathematical treatise...
...restore your sense of wonder For over 20 years, the Cal-a-Vie spa was a celebrity favorite, luring the likes of Oprah Winfrey and Sharon Stone to its location in the hills north of San Diego. But while the spa's spare, utilitarian interiors may have been the height of fashion in the 1980s, they did not age well - especially in the face of the competition that emerged with the spa-building boom of the last few years. Enter investors John and Terri Havens. The New Orleans couple bought Cal-a-Vie in 2001 and embarked on a mission...