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...Nicky Grant, will try to stay at the top of a league which has lost an unprecedented level of talent to graduation. While Harvard may have graduated the league’s two greatest athletes—sprinter and hurdler Brenda Taylor ’01 and high jumper Dora Gyorffy ’01—the team still returns strong league title contenders in the throws and jumps and expects considerable improvement in the distances and some freshman reinforcement in the sprints...
Time and time again last year, it was Crimson guard Patrick Harvey who made the big play—a steal off an inbounds pass, a running jumper through the lane, a pair of timely free throws—to pull out an improbable...
...junior point guard connected on a jumper with six seconds remaining to give Harvard a two-point lead and, eventually, its second win of this young season...
While the Pentagon has been using drones as flying spies for years, it was less than 18 months ago that Jumper--then running the Air Force's Air Combat Command--first realized that his growing fleet of unmanned aircraft represented a missed opportunity. "It just clicked: that if we could put a small weapon on this thing, we could do the entire cycle--find a target, kill it and assess it--from the same vehicle," the Vietnam War pilot recalls. Jumper didn't actually engineer the missile-firing drone, but he oversaw and championed its development. Even more important...
...Jumper, 56, acknowledges that as a former "white-scarf fighter pilot" (and the father of two daughters who wear Air Force blue), he might be expected to hate drones for usurping the role of the fighter jock. Not so. "Pilots are for anything," he says, "that will get them in and out alive...