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Harvard women's lacrosse Co-Captain Sarah Leary has that elusive je ne sais quoi that it takes to be the country's leading goalie...
Toby Blackwell followed with a brilliant lead in "Midnight Train to Georgia." This number showcased the group's impressive singing abilities as well as its complicated choreography, which added that extra je ne sais quoi to their performances...
...boxing that's dead, has been since Primo Carnera retired. It's a sham and a shuck, lacking the je ne sais quoi of monster-truck racing and the visual appeal of a carton of eggs falling off the kitchen counter. Nobody cares except a couple dozen middle-aged sports editors. If those guys would unplug the publicity tubes...
...seeded Jeremy Fraiberg overcame taunting "Je-ee-er-emy" catcalls from the gallery to down Canadian archrival Chris Stevens in four games. Fraiberg lost the opening game, 10-15, after refusing Stevens a let. After a heated argument on the court, Fraiberg recovered to sweep three straight...
...speak our minds, but we do willy-nilly speak our hearts. We grow more direct in another tongue and say the things we would not say at home -- as if, you might say, we were under a foreign influence. Inhibitions are the first thing to get lost in translation: "Je t'aime" comes much more easily than "I love you." Small wonder, perhaps, that spies are gifted linguists by nature as well as by training (John le Carre was one of the most brilliant language students of his day); entering another tongue, we steal into another self...