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...Harvard women’s water polo coach Erik Farrar was nervous about his team’s trip to the Ivy Championship tournament this weekend at Brown, he had every right to be. In addition to the usual opening-weekend jitters, the Crimson had to deal with an injury-filled bench and a starting lineup that contained four freshmen and just two upperclassmen. Even with these setbacks the Crimson took second place overall, going 3-2 on the weekend to take second place in the tournament. Harvard faced the Bears in the championship game after defeating Penn...
...handily, by a score of 6-2, Valkin seemed tired in his second set and lost it, 6-3. “I was trying to overcome nerves pretty much the whole match,” Valkin said. “When you’re a bit nervous, you expend a lot more energy.” Nonetheless, Valkin matched his opponent blow for blow for seven games. Up 4-3, Valkin seemed poised to break his opponent, but three questionable calls over the course of four points cost him the break and drew howls of anger from...
...knew we needed this match,” Duboc said. “I was very nervous in the beginning, until a game and a half in, then I started playing and got nervous again. It’s like this cycle of being nervous and playing and nerves and playing. It was an internal battle playing them...
...describe the brain in so few words under pressure. “I never thought I could sum up how the brain works in exactly five words!” he wrote in an e-mail after he taped the show, adding that he was “pretty nervous beforehand.” Most of the discussion focused on Pinker’s 2002 book “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”—a book on evolutionary psychology—as Pinker struggled to explain his beliefs about brain function...
...that is life in a city having a collective nervous breakdown...