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...whom the world would know as Pax Thien Jolie was brought to the Tam Binh orphanage when he was one month old after being abandoned by his mother at Tu Du obstretics hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. "His mother gave birth and left immediately," said Nguyen Van Trung, director of orphanage. Hospital authorities put up notices and tried to search for the mother for 30 days but no one showed up. So he was placed in the orphanage, which was provided with a police report of attempts to find his birth parents, as is standard practice in Vietnam...
...Despite his serene name, little Pax's formal introduction to his new movie-star mother was slightly stormy: the boy started crying when Jolie knelt down to speak to him at Thursday morning's welcoming ceremony, according to the orphanage director, Nguyen Van Trung. Jolie wasn't fazed...
...score did not reflect the close matches that characterized Crimson play. “The team showed some strength,” senior co-captain Scott Denenberg said. “Gideon [Valkin] had a close match, Ashwin [Kumar] had a good win, I had a close match, Dan [Nguyen] had a close match. A few of those flip-flop or we win a doubles point, and the match could have gone the other way.” After a slow start for Harvard, the outcome of the match seemed to be up in the air when the competition received...
...match was a huge one because the No. 1 guy was just crushing the ball,” Fish said. These two victories helped the Crimson rebound after it started the match poorly by losing the doubles point. The No. 2 doubles team of juniors Dan Nguyen and Kieran Burke lost to Svigelj and Marc Jaeger, 8-1, and at No. 3, co-captain Scott Denenberg and freshman Michael Hayes lost to the Bulls’ Thomas Estrada and Mahmoud Hamed, 8-5. At No. 1 doubles, Valkin and junior Ashwin Kumar picked up Harvard’s lone doubles...
...players.The match started out auspiciously for Harvard but proceeded with such riveting swings of momentum that the final turn—in Purdue’s favor—felt almost anticlimactic.That swing came in the form of a missed backhand volley by No. 3 Junior Dan Nguyen with the score knotted at 10-10 in a third set tiebreaker. The volley did not stretch Nguyen much—four feet from the net, at a seemingly comfortable height—but Nguyen underestimated, punching the ball into the net and then hobbling away, with a cramped left quadriceps...