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...David Foster Wallace only on the page. His first agent suggested that he use his middle name, to distinguish him from another David Wallace, and it stuck. Born in 1962 and raised in Illinois, he was a competitive junior tennis player--at 14 he was ranked 17th in the Midwest. He studied philosophy at Amherst College and then Harvard, and when he was only 24, he published his first novel, The Broom of the System. In 1996 he vaulted into the upper ranks of the literary world with Infinite Jest, his 1,079-page (and 388-footnote) meta-epic...
...first time in recent memory, the History and Literature concentration will no longer offer full-year one-on-one tutorials to this year’s junior class...
...replete with 65-percent possession and 14 total shots—came undone in the second minute of the extra period when URI substitute forward Erkko Puranen snuck behind a well-advanced Crimson backline and scored the game-winning goal on a one-on-one breakaway against Harvard junior keeper Joseph Alexander.“[URI] sat behind the ball with most of their numbers and didn’t mind us having it,” senior co-captain and forward Mike Fucito said. “We had a few chances that we couldn?...
...Freshman middle blocker Annie Ingersoll fronted the squad’s defensive efforts by denying the Eagles seven times. Harvard also one-upped the Eagles in attack percentage, 0.206 to .199. “I don’t think there was one [deciding factor],” junior co-captain Katherine Kocurek said. “So many different things that happened at different points.” Kocurek played in all four games, contributing a set and 11 digs. The fourth set provided the Crimson with perhaps its best chance to claim a second match. Harvard controlled...
...extra time after playing two full overtime periods on Sunday before ending in a 1-1 tie with Wisconsin. Even with the game tied at one apiece in the second half, Harvard had plenty of chances to put the game away and prevent extra time altogether.In the 68th minute, junior Christina Hagner’s game-tying bid nicked off the far post and out of harm’s way. In the 75th minute, a Lizzy Nichols free kick ran just out of the reach of a sprinting Sheeleigh and turned around for a goal kick. In the 79th...