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...better at knocking our opponents out at the end of matches,” Kalfayan said. Sophomore Aba Omodele-Lucien started off hot, defeating Notre Dame’s No. 2 player in a supertiebreaker and handily winning a doubles match with junior Sasha Ermakov. But a minor shoulder injury proved enough to knock Omodele-Lucien off his groove, and he lost his next two matches in supertiebreakers. Ermakov and Omodele-Lucien bounced back to win three consecutive doubles matches on the second day of play. In singles, Ermakov fell in straight sets to Notre Dame?...
...Arts and reserved for a young female artist—talked about her professional life and based discussion on students’ questions. Jobin arrived at Harvard as a 16-year-old and became one of the first students to concentrate in women’s studies, with a minor in music. Finding that women composers were not studied at all in the music department, Jobin wrote her senior thesis on the five most successful examples of her time and the challenges they faced. “I very deliberately studied them in my senior thesis so that I would...
...injury was minor, however, and she is expected to be back in action soon...
...vice president, he said that he is still excited to see his governor on the national stage. “There’s just sort of a general spirit of excitement,” Treuer said. “A couple of years before, she was just a minor political figure you’d recognize while shopping at Costco.” Earlier this year, the Alaska Klub—whose main events are the Polar Bear Swim and Human Iditarod—deemed this year the “Year of Alaska” in honor...
...lovable lemur could be for Madagascar what the panda - the original adaptively cute animal - is for China, a charismatic minor species, a symbol of the nation and conservation. Having a species recognized by the world can motivate locals also to support conservation. "It's good for people to know that they have a species around them that the world cares about," says Mittermeier. Already lemurs are attracting growing numbers of tourists to Madagascar, as evidenced by the full camping grounds at the lodge where our group stayed in the Ankarafantsika Park, where sifakas all but drop in on the breakfast...