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Also competing this past weekend at the US National Championships were senior Danielle Hobeika and Dustin DeNunzio '99. Both turned in terrific performances and will join Jantzen at the World Team Trials in June. Hobeika finished seventh in the Women's Division while DeNunzio took second in the Senior Freestyle Division at 138.75 pounds...
MIDDLE EAST Those Who Live by the Sword . . . The former Lebanese warlord whose Israel-allied Christian militia slaughtered hundreds of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in 1982 was assassinated in a Beirut car-bomb explosion. Elie Hobeika had no shortage of enemies, but initial suspicion has fallen on Israel. Hobeika met earlier last week with Belgian officials considering war crimes charges against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The potential charges, permitted under Belgian law, stem from Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, when Sharon was Defense Minister and strongly allied to Hobeika's Lebanese Forces. Sharon was forced...
Sensing a possible Title IX angle, I get in touch with Lauralee Summer '98, a woman whose name is listed as a contact on the poster. Lauralee confirms that she and Danielle A. Hobeika '01 are in fact trying to pull together a club for women wrestlers. But right away she makes it clear that her commitment to wrestling is nothing if not earnest...
...addition, Lauralee tells me that the number of women wrestlers in America has increased four-fold in the last several years. It turns out that there is an entire circuit of women's wrestling tournaments and three or four full-scale teams on the collegiate level. Hobeika recently finished first in her weight class at a Christmas tournament in New York and Summer, who paid her own way sophomore year before she got a grant from Radcliffe as a junior, has in the past finished second and third. But because they both weigh less than 118 pounds--the lowest weight...
...just to go out there and get more experience, especially since this was the first time ever on Harvard mats," Hobeika said...