Word: holleran
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...season by sending junior Catherine O’Donnell, sophomore Alisha Mashruwala, and freshmen Emily Park and Nirasha Guruge to the CSA Individual Championships. Guruge was the most successful in the tournament, ranked at No. 7 and falling in the quaterfinals to the No. 2 seed. Snyder won the Holleran Cup—the “B” bracket of the CSA tournament. Five All-Americans were selected from Harvard’s squad, and Guruge became the third Crimson player in the past four years to be named Ivy League Rookie of the Year, making this season...
...years ago, scientists published the first account of the disease that came to be known as AIDS. From the early '80s until 1995, when AIDS deaths in the U.S. crested, the plague arrested and then completely subsumed gay culture. In his new book Chronicle of a Plague, Revisited, Andrew Holleran writes that living in gay New York in the '80s "felt like attending a dinner party at which some of the guests were being taken outside and shot, while the rest of us were expected to continue eating and making small talk...
...years after antiretroviral drugs began saving lives, the tense fear that Holleran describes gave way to hope, wary optimism and then finally a wild spurt of gay partying in the 1990s. I came out in 1993, when I was 22. For the rest of that decade, I didn't know any gay men who had AIDS, but I knew plenty who took ecstasy every weekend...
...best results of the season. Tiong advanced to the semifinals of the main bracket, the best performance for a freshman in the tournament, defeating former Crimson standout and 2006 national champion Lily Lorentzen of Stanford along the way. Snyder, snubbed by the main draw, charged through the Holleran “B” draw as the top seed to take the title. Freshman Bethan Williams recorded one of the biggest upsets in tournament history by defeating the tournament’s No. 3 seed, Princeton’s Amanda Siebert, in the opening round. —Staff writer...
...Individual Championships at the Naval Academy with both titles and upsets, and for the second consecutive year returned to Cambridge with some hardware for the trophy case. Sophomore Johanna Snyder, snubbed by the selection committee for placement in the A draw, stormed through the 51-person Holleran Cup, or “B” Bracket as the No. 1 seed to seize the title. “I was a little disappointed not to be in the main draw,” Snyder said. “But I gave it my all...And it paid...