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Intramural (IM) sports at Harvard bring out the best and the worst from their participants. Bruises, black eyes as well as the proverbial blood, sweat and tears: all serve as testimonies to the raw passion that fuels many IM participants, those desperately grappling for that 100 points that will edge out an opposing dorm and clench the Yard Bucket or Straus Cup. This fearless dedication to the game is a major motivating force for Laurence Tai ’06. However, his sport of choice is not played on a court or a field. Rather, Tai?...
...approaches IM representation the way he approaches academics. “I’m very grade-driven. I’m the kind of person that goes for the perfect score on the problem set, even though it may not be necessary. I apply this same principle to being an IM rep,” he says...
After Wigglesworth had a slow start in the fall intramural season, Tai assumed the duties of head IM representative, aiming to streamline communication and overcome the “architectural challenges” of Wigg’s isolated entryways. He’s succeeded in pulling Wigglesworth from intramural doldrums to second spot, “a position we’ve held for months now,” Tai proudly declares. The cornerstone of his job lies in the meticulously detailed intramural updates that Tai regularly e-mails to all Wigglesworth residents. “It?...
...Wigg IM participants are grateful to Tai for building a sense of intramural cohesion. James M. Rhodes ’06, former captain of Wigg’s “Slytherin” basketball team, says, “He’s definitely one of the biggest reasons we have done so well. He’s always at the games supporting...
...last September that collared Ramzi Binalshibh, a Yemeni who allegedly ran the logistics for the Sept. 11 attacks out of Hamburg. Other possible replacements for Mohammed include three of his nephews. One is named Ali Abd al-Aziz; the other two--Abd al-Karim Yousef and Abd al-Mun'im Yousef--are brothers of Ramzi Yousef, now serving a life term in a U.S. prison. One of these three men--authorities will not say which--was arrested overseas about a month ago. A counterterrorism official identifies al-Karim Yousef--who, like Mohammed, attended North Carolina A&T State University...