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...whole is mired in mediocrity, it’s hard to demand more than that from each of its component parts. Sure, Sullivan seems destined for no better than a 7-7 Ivy finish, which would be the squad’s sixth in eight years and the ninth straight season that the Crimson failed to finish above .500 in the Ivy League. But in six seasons under coach Peter Roby, Sullivan’s predecessor, Harvard never cracked .500 in league play and only hit 7-7 twice...
...held a spotless 5-0 league record, with Harvard trailing one game behind in second place at 4-1. The two teams stayed close at the start of the match, with Yale holding a 3-2 advantage through five as the Crimson dropped matches at the sixth, eighth and ninth spots. “At the beginning, we really didn’t know who was going to come out with the lead,” Broadbent said. Down the stretch, however, Crimson combined close, hard-fought victories at the fourth and fifth spots with easy victories...
...After junior Ilan Oren defeated Jacques Swanepoel, 9-4, 9-6, 7-9, 9-3, in the third position, a trio of Harvard juniors—Jason De Lierre, Garnett Booth, and Mihir Sheth—fell in succession. Junior Todd Ostrow was never in the ninth position match, losing, 9-1, 9-0, 9-1. “I felt like the team played much better this time around against Trinity,” Sheth said. “Personally, coming off the Trinity match, I thought I played a very good game, but you cannot underestimate the Yale...
...unlike the United States Postal Service, the Harvard ski team has been known to deliver through rain, sleet, or snow—or hail, lighting, and maybe even some unnerving gusts of wind. A weekend characterized by unpredictable weather saw the Crimson alpine and nordic teams finish in ninth place at the Williams Carnival, held at Prospect Mountain, Vt., and Jiminy Peak, Mass. The ninth-place finish in the 11-team field was the team’s fourth in as many events this season, a level of consistency that has placed higher expectations on a young but talented Harvard...
Elizabeth Gilbert is, in herown words, "the kind of person who, when a ninth-generation Indonesian medicine man tells you that you're destined to move to Bali and live with him for four months, thinks you should make every effort to do that." She is also exactly the kind of person a ninth-generation Indonesian medicine man would say that to: charming, blond, gregarious, spiritually curious and highly mobile...