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...captain Emily Cross, a 2008 Olympic silver medalist with Team USA, won 21 out of 24 matches to qualify for the semifinal in the foil division. Cross lost a gritty 8-7 match to eventual champion Doris Willette of Penn State to finish in third place and earn her third career All-American selection. Cross also represented the fourth Crimson fencer of the tournament to make an event final four, setting a new Harvard fencing record...
...writing fiction were an Olympic track event, Jodi Picoult would be a gold medalist. At 42, Picoult has published 16 books and has become one of the world's best-selling novelists. Often described as a writer who straddles the line between literary and commercial fiction, she is known for her artful family dramas that play on hot-button, ripped-from-the-headlines themes, such as spousal abuse and euthanasia. Her latest novel, Handle With Care, centers on the family of Willow O'Keefe, a smart, beautiful little girl with brittle bone disease. TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs reached Picoult...
...show signs for concern, offering a valiant effort against the top fencers in the country this year. With close losses to some of the nation’s best, including a controversial 5-4 loss to Duke’s Rebecca Ward—a bronze medalist for the US in Beijing—on Sunday, her success comes as no surprise to Brand. “Caroline can make the Olympic team in 2012,” Brand said. “That is contingent on her hard work. If she continues to do the same thing...
...smooth out the horizontal creases in their foreheads, though, unlike women, they don't tend to worry about crow's feet. Men do, however, fret a lot more about the pain. "They get so jacked up worrying that it will hurt," says Botox enthusiast and nine-time Olympic gold medalist Mark Spitz. "Maybe that's why women have babies...
...Boston College, and Brandeis.The women started fast and finished strong, never winning by fewer than 13 bouts, besting MIT 22-5, BC 21-6, and Brandeis 20-7.The Crimson was led by solid performances from its foil fencers. The deepest weapon on the squad, the foil boasts an Olympic medalist in co-captain Emily Cross, a gutsy freshman in Shelby MacLeod, and junior Anna Podolsky who competed at NCAAs last spring. The trio went a combined 26-1 on the day, with the lone defeat coming in one of Podolsky’s bouts.“We have a tremendous...