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...course, admitting this is taboo, as Delahunty learned two years ago. She was in marathon committee meetings, stacking glorious girls on the waiting list while less accomplished boys wiggled through, when she got an e-mail informing her that her own daughter had been wait-listed. The experience inspired her to write a confessional Op-Ed, "To All the Girls I've Rejected," for the New York Times, responses to which lit up her inbox. "It pissed off the feminists and the misogynists--I got both sides of the spectrum," she told me. "The misogynists said women already have...
...returns, and then capitalizing on his opponent’s inability to hit a strong passing shot by crowding the net.Next, Nguyen broke through in his match at No. 4, winning 6-7, 6-2, 7-5.“Dan threw everything but the kitchen sink in the marathon third set,” Rueb said. “He was ripping groundstrokes, hitting those deep crosscourt backhands that allowed him to move his opponent around. That got him the match.”A reconfigured doubles lineup won Harvard’s other point.SANTA BARBARA 4, HARVARD 3With...
...Badgers are fresh off an overtime upset of No. 4 Minnesota.Playing on the neutral ice of the DECC in Duluth also eliminates the home-ice advantage Wisconsin enjoyed when the teams last met.Another difference—neither team has the same lineup from last year’s marathon contest.“We’re different teams from where we were a year ago,” head coach Katey Stone said. “The complexion of their team is different, the complexion of ours is different. It’s an entirely different ballgame...
...economy shows signs of fraying just as the government prepares to run it up the Olympic flagpole. Inflation, contaminated goods and industrial pollution all underscore the fact that China, too, is bound by the laws and limitations of economic development. Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia, world-record holder in the marathon, won't run that event in Beijing for fear that the foul air could damage his health...
Where this year's Biennial goes out on a limb is in the decision to devote a separate venue to shared social experiences defined as artworks. These include a 24-hour dance marathon, a Gypsy-themed feast and a slumber party. Momin and Huldisch say this kind of evanescent "event art" is another manifestation of the recoil from the market, and that it's so widespread across the U.S. that no survey show can ignore it. To accommodate this, for its first three weeks, the Biennial is spilling over to the Park Avenue Armory, a Victorian brick pile...