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Juniors Chris Clever, John Kraay, and Arthur Fergusson will be seeking to outdo their individual performances last weekend at Heps...

Author: By Cathy Tran, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M., W. Track Competes at ECAC's, IC4A's | 5/19/2000 | See Source »

Captain Darren Dinneen, who placed third in the 800-meter with a time of 1:48.45 at Heps, will be seeking to outdo his performance last weekend with an even stronger performance at the IC4A's. Senior David Martin, who won fourth in the 3000-meter steeplechase, will be the only Harvard long-distance runner to compete for the Crimson...

Author: By Cathy Tran, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M., W. Track Competes at ECAC's, IC4A's | 5/19/2000 | See Source »

...Restoration dramas--the tragedies and not the comedies. They're filled with scenes where someone will get racked on stage. It's still uncertain exactly when this stage rack came about or who built it, but it appears to be part of a general trend in the Restoration to outdo the Renaissance. Restoration playwrights were constantly rewriting Renaissance texts and there was a general turn towards depicting more things on stage, including torture...

Author: By David Kornhaber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wrestling 101: Oh, the humanity! | 2/11/2000 | See Source »

...better described not as a clock but as a scenario, which we can hope to edit." If we died in old age at the same rate we die between ages 10 and 15, then most of us in the U.S. would live 1,200 years. We would outdo the first Methuselah, whose years were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can I Live To Be 125? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...Catapulted to collegiate fame and 10 bucks richer, Lothrop lost the election but gained much, much more. He had broken down the door to wacky, collegiate fads, as kids everywhere anxiously followed suit, striving to outdo one another in speed and volume of goldfish consumption. Straightening sweater vests and smoothing down cowlicks, the bravest of our grandparents' generation rose to the challenge...

Author: By Sarah L. Gore, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: (Gulp): A Brief History of Goldfish Swallowing | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

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