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Potter, like Ruggiero, is a two-time Olympian, and has taken additional time off due to the birth of her first child. She is a one-woman scoring machine who owns records at her former school, the University of Minnesota, in goals, assists and points in a single season...
...struggle to debunk with Clark Kent humility back in our hometowns. She was a consummate do-gooder, a ready-made all-star at the Freshman Activities Fair who won tens of thousands of dollars in scholarships for her service. But just as the envious imagine when they see an Olympian resume like hers, she also took credit for the work of mortals. According to some of the people in charities she supported, they often spoke with her father, as reported in the Philadelphia Inquirer...
Hollywood would probably define an epic as a war movie for kids, in three or more installments. But before The Lord of the Rings, before Star Wars and Star Trek--nearly three millenniums before--a blind bard named Homer sang of an Olympian spat and the decade-long battle it stoked between the great, ancient civilizations of Greece and Troy...
Before matriculation, Harvard loomed for most of us as an Olympian institution whose intellectual demigods occasionally mingled with us mortals in our high-school reading assignments or our newspapers at breakfast. For foreign students, Harvard was probably considered the best of America, the reservoir of both its genius and, especially in a time of international conflict, its compassion. So when we first arrived in Cambridge, most of us felt the enormity of the institution as something overwhelming—and our unworthiness and alienation from it, something profound...
...this age of exploding and highly specialized knowledge, and justified skepticism about Olympian claims, it is not easy to figure out how we can legitimately address our students’ desire for familiarity with the landscape of the major fields of knowledge,” Summers said. “But I hope we will do our best to wrestle with this issue...