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...with being shorter and still be great.”The Crimson players insist that Kuld’s play on the beach has had a positive impact on the team’s success. The versatile star has improved his ball control drastically, increased his vertical leap, and adjusted easily between the sand and the hardwood. Since beach volleyball features only two people per team, the summer training may also have contributed to Kuld’s offensive assertiveness.“He has stepped onto our team being a really reliable, all-around player,” Weissbourd...
Ethanol, the love-child of Bush’s bad poll ratings, a White House PR campaign, and the worst type of leap-before-you-look environmentalism, has helped to drive what might be the biggest rise in world food prices since the nineteenth century. The shame of it all is that ethanol isn’t going to clear up our climate change woes. Scientists aren’t even agreed that ethanol is energy efficient to produce and, if it is, it makes more sense to abolish immense trade tariffs and buy cheap corn from Brazil than...
Moving from a Harvard Law School lecture hall to the U.S. Embassy at the Vatican might seem to require a major leap of faith. But Glendon, considered one of the top American Catholic thinkers of her generation, has long been at home along the banks of both the Charles and Tiber rivers. Officially installed on Feb. 29 as the new American Ambassador to the Holy See, she is a longtime Harvard Law professor, author and international expert on human rights and legal theory. But her resume also includes stints as a visiting lecturer at the Gregorian Pontifical University in Rome...
...qualifies her for the NCAAs. Co-captain Sally Stanton and senior Clara Blattler cleared 3.55m and 3.85m, respectively, in the pole vault, while senior Danielle Mirabal finished eighth in the 60-meter dash. Senior Brittan Smith led the women in the field events with a second-place leap of 6.00m. Co-captain Alex Lewis finished sixth in the men’s heptathlon with 5112 points. All in all, the women supplied 11 ECAC qualifiers and the men added eight IC4A qualifiers, including the 4x800-meter relay, which bodes well for the upcoming outdoor season starting...
Last Friday, the Bach Society (BachSoc) Orchestra rang in Leap Day with a dazzling showcase of talent that featured their own members, as well as two guests: composer Elizabeth C. Lim ’08 and pianist Charlie Albright ’11. Music director Aram Demirjian ’08 led the orchestra with great poise, but Albright stole the show when he led the orchestra through Tchaikovsky’s “Piano Concerto No. 1”—a notoriously difficult piece—with great polish and professionalism. The evening began with Igor...