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...able to light the lamp. Forward Michael Biega, younger brother of sophomore defenseman Alex, received a cross from junior forward Steve Rolecek and sent the puck past PEI goalie Dayne Davis for a 2-0 lead. “I know when I was a freshman, I was pretty nervous my first game, so it was good to see,” Taylor said of the scoring by the rookies. “We’ve got to have everyone contributing and it’s good to see them starting early.” After the Panthers brought...
...minutes ticked away before his prime-time address, his 11-year-old twin daughters brought their nervous father a sheet of paper. Looking down, expecting to see his first words—“I accept!”—Summers instead found a new draft penned by his children: “Harvard is good. Harvard is great. Let us go forth and educate,” he recalled this week...
...comedians themselves attest, getting a slot on stage is far easier than succeeding on that stage.“My first show, I was terrible, I bombed,” Bohrer recalls. “I had a few good jokes, but I was completely nervous.”“Since then, I’ve worked out what works and what doesn’t by process of elimination,” he says.Which isn’t to say the process is without rewards.“The moments when they do laugh, and when there?...
...know. I'm actually not exactly sure if that was the reason. I suppose it could be. I remember my coach, Carlo Fassi, always saying to people, 'Oh, Dorothy's mother makes her nervous and Dorothy never skates well when her mother is in the arena.' It's true. I could just sense when my mother was at a practice session. I could just feel her eyes boring holes through me. I could look up and just tell from the way she was sitting that she was either upset with me or not happy or I wasn't doing something...
...ranked pair, which usually plays at No. 1 doubles for the Crimson, earned a spot in the tournament by winning the ITA National Summer Championships in early August. In Kumar and Ermakov’s first match, they faced No. 12 Blake Strode and Colin Mascall from Arkansas. Playing nervously early in the match, the Harvard team lost its serve. Down a break at 7-4, Kumar and Ermakov held their serve and then, thanks to poor serving on their opponents’ part, broke the Razorbacks. With the match back on serve at 7-6, the Crimson pair forced...