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There are five singles brackets and three doubles brackets in the Harvard Invitational. Each team is allowed to enter up to two players (or teams) in each bracket, though no more than eight players can compete in each flight. Players can overlap, playing both singles and doubles, if their coaches are so inclined to give them double-duty...
...fewer candidates who are likley to jump quickly to mind as the logical, obvious candidates for those institutions," Chandler says. "In an earlier period, someone such as...Nan Keohane figured into speculation quite widely then." Nevertheless, he adds, "there's likely to be a substantial amount of overlap in the pools...
...interesting features of summer theatre is the overlap within the individual productions. Senior Jay Chaffin transformed from a condemned Spaniard-with-a-song-in-his-heart into a gambling New Orleans philanderer; Ari Appel '03, the guitarist in La Mancha's orchestra, took a turn across the boards as Stanley in Streetcar. Dan Cozzens '03, in a rather peculiar instance of ethnic globalization, went from Russian to Mexican in a matter of weeks...
...some, art and sport, like oil and water, don't mix. "Maybe it goes back to the schoolyard," says Paul Costantoura, author of the recent Australia Council report Australians and the Arts. "There were sporting types and there were non-sporting types." But Costantoura uncovered a surprising degree of overlap. Of those surveyed, 78% agreed that "people can enjoy the arts in the same way that they enjoy sport." While followers of Shakespeare or Shirvington might beg to differ, both arenas offer audiences a primal ritual, says Costantoura: "It's the vicarious struggle of the hero. Will they succeed...
What happens to a corporation when environmental concerns overlap with good public relations? You get the latest Beltway love match: Ford Motor Company and the Sierra Club. It seems that ever since the giant automaker began investigating ways to entice green-minded consumers by improving the fuel efficiency of their gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles (beyond the requirements established by federal lawmakers), the company's become something of a poster child for corporate responsibility - and a darling of the environmental movement, members of which are pointing to Ford's latest maneuvers as a sign that the very dirty car industry...