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...being a two-varsity athlete at Harvard. In the winter, he is a diver for the Crimson swimming and diving team, and, in the spring, he is a coxswain for the heavyweight crew team. On top of those commitments, Davis completed last year’s New York City Marathon. “Each sport has its own little niche that I like about it,” Davis says. “The leadership I get with the crew team is a pretty cool thing, and the running—I like the solitude of it and being able...
...strong performance against a tournament field packed full of players from powerful SEC schools showed “that we can compete at a national level.”Kumar, despite suffering from a fever, won a three-setter, 7-6(10), 3-6, 6-1, that included a marathon first-set tiebreaker in which he saved a number of set points. He won his next round, 6-3, 0-1, after his opponent retired due to injury, but was eliminated in the quarters, 6-2, 6-4.Ermakov won his first-round match in two draining sets...
Their talks with Thompson went right down to the wire. The HHS Secretary signed the deal in a marathon negotiation with Romney and Kennedy that ended on Jan. 26, 2005, his last day on the job, while his going-away party was getting under way. The agreement stipulated that the commonwealth could keep the money but only if it passed a universal-coverage...
...active member of the Phillips Brooks House Association, he served as co-director for Refugee Youth Summer Enrichment—a summer program that teaches English to immigrants in Boston high schools. And he raised more than $900 for this spring’s Harvard College Marathon Challenge, which funds Boston-area youth. “For Henry, service was a natural response to need,” Roger Porter, master of Dunster House, said yesterday. “He never turned away or walked on the other side of the road when the opportunity for service beckoned...
...That's déjà vu, but with a difference. Three years ago a similar all-night E.U. marathon session ended in a celebration of the vaunted E.U. constitution. Then French President Jacques Chirac made the controversial decision to put the constitution to a referendum - which he lost on May 29, 2005, setting the stage for the Dutch rejection several days later...