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...balance your desire for daredevil adventure with the risk of death? -Mengqiao Wang, Ithaca, N.Y.As an adventurer, if I try to do something man has not done before-like cross the Atlantic in a hot-air balloon-I try to protect against the downside. I make sure I have covered as many eventualities as I can. In the end, though, you've got to take calculated risks; otherwise, you're going to sit in mothballs all day and do nothing. Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than...
...title and capped off a perfect season with a 3-1 victory Saturday over Yale. CORNELL 3, HARVARD 2 The Crimson looked poised to finish its season strong after getting out to a 2-0 lead over the Big Red (10-15, 6-8 Ivy), but the visitors from Ithaca played spoiler to Harvard’s plans by battling back and capturing the match, 3-2 (20-30, 28-30, 30-26, 30-28, 19-17) in an extended fifth game. Seniors Suzie Trimble, Laura Mahon, and Mimi Hanley all had big days while wearing their Crimson uniforms...
...true that Mick and Keith often forget how to play your greatest hits? -George Rosenburg, Ithaca, N.Y.It is true that sometimes they do forget. [Laughs.] As it says in my book, "Just because I wrote it doesn't necessarily mean I know it." I need prompting too, but I am ahead of the game as far as remembering what they should know...
Raised in competitive Ivy League rowing towns, captain Pat Mulcahy and fellow senior Matt Young were brought up to hate Harvard, their hometown schools’ rival on the water.But in the end, the two lightweight standouts couldn’t resist the call of the Charles.Hailing from Ithaca, N.Y., and Philadelphia, Penn., respectively—the homes of lightweight crew powerhouses Cornell and Penn—Mulcahy and Young have long been exposed to top-notch crews.By living in places where crew was a prominent sport, the two benefited from great coaching and plenty of local competition when they...
...more reliable running back in senior Luke Siwula, but he’s been on the shelf lately with an injury. Cornell also possesses the superior defense, which ranks second in the Ivies against the pass (the Bears are dead-last in that category).Showers are predicted in Ithaca for tomorrow, and a slippery Schoellkopf Field is good news for the Red.Prediction: Cornell 25, Brown 17DARTMOUTH (1-4, 1-1) VS. COLUMBIA (1-4, 0-2)The dregs of the conference, even though Dartmouth could conceivably—if the previous picks are correct, at least—move into...