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...Meeting him and hearing him speak in person was not too far removed from reading [A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius],” said Kim T. Nguyen ’06, an English concentrator. Eggers is loath to use the word “memoir” to describe Genius, which most students towed along for him to sign. The story is tragic and indeed his own, relating the nearly-simultaneous death of both of his parents and the bond that followed as he played surrogate parent to his younger brother Toph. But with ironic laughter injected into...
...played with a lot of intensity in the first set, but slowly the momentum started to turn as he gained more confidence in his shots,” Nguyen said...
...clinch his berth, Nguyen had to defeat Virginia Tech’s Angel Diankov in the semifinals. Nguyen started out smoking, claiming the first set 6-0 and jumping out to a 2-0 lead in the second set before giving up a service break. He regained his composure, breaking Diankov’s serve to get back the lead at 3-2, and then served the match...
...Nguyen also entered the doubles bracket with junior Martin Wetzel, but Cerretani ended his run there as well, pairing with Adil Shamasdin to defeat the Harvard...
...pair of Cerretani and Shamasdin was not done causing trouble for the Crimson, defeating the unseeded team of junior Jason Beren and senior George Turner, 8-2. Cerretani also prevailed 6-3, 7-6 (6) over Wetzel in the third round of singles, completing the trifecta by knocking out Nguyen and Wetzel each individually and in doubles...