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...embittered vendetta against a mediocre women’s team and an even worse men’s team, which hasn’t won a league meet in 40 years. The part of the story that isn’t told—possibly because it detracts from heroic student activism—is that Wright and Larimore have expressed significant personal regret about the decision and have explained that it was not a hasty solution but was a last-ditch effort after other alternatives failed...

Author: By Daniel B. Holoch, | Title: Swimming Against the Tide | 12/13/2002 | See Source »

...embittered vendetta against a mediocre women’s team and an even worse men’s team, which hasn’t won a league meet in 40 years. The part of the story that isn’t told—possibly because it detracts from heroic student activism—is that Wright and Larimore have expressed significant personal regret about the decision and have explained that it was not a hasty solution but was a last-ditch effort after other alternatives failed...

Author: By Daniel B. Holoch, | Title: The Lesser of Two Evils | 12/13/2002 | See Source »

Priscilla Orta ’05 declared her intent to enter the contest with her 30-volume collection of books about Latinos in the United States, focusing on Mexican-Americans and Mexican migrant workers, including titles such as Heroic Mexico, Crossing Over, With These Hands and Immigrant America...

Author: By Lauren A.E. Schuker, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Book Junkies Collect Prizes, Too | 12/10/2002 | See Source »

...allowed her to do heroic things today,” Delaney-Smith said...

Author: By Jessica T. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gopher Pressure, Turnovers Plague W. Hoops | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

...early sampling, the Celestial package gives evidence of one of the regular cinephile's prime pleasures: following favorite movie people from one project to another. King Hu was an actor before he became the most artful of action auteurs; here you can see him as Lin Dai's comic-heroic brother in The Kingdom and the Beauty before watching his breakthrough martial arts film Come Drink With Me. Cheng Pei-pei is majestically severe at 20 as the heroine of Come Drink With Me, then a pert, curvy chanteuse the following year in Hong Kong Nocturne. Li Hanxiang's directorial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oh, Brothers! | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

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