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...time. Really. You may not have heard of us, a modest five-piece jazz ensemble founded in the fall of 2005, but like any other major musical act, we had recordings, a rehearsal space, even groupies. We played with Herbie Hancock; we played for Mitt Romney. At our peak, a Harvard class reunion paid us a thousand bucks to play for approximately an hour and plied us with wine and food. I think it’s safe to say that, as an acoustic jazz group composed of Harvard undergraduates specializing in late 60s modal jazz, we were peerless...
...missed the first two Ivy League matches in singles, and Cao only started playing in dual matches over spring break.But after spring break, Harvard came together and started playing its best tennis of the year. By the end of the Ivy League season, the Crimson had reached its peak and completed the rejuvenation.“We’re a totally different team than we were in February,” Green said on April 21, before facing the Big Green. “I feel like our squad is much more confident, more competent, and we are prepared...
...Eastern Sprints, we got second, and I think that we should have been rowing like that all season and our previous results don’t really reflect that,” Coffey said. “It’s a little frustrating not to peak earlier, but now that we’re coming into final races, we’re where we want to be.”Earlier in the season, the Tigers had finished 6.8 seconds ahead of the Black and White to win the Class of 1975 Cup while Yale beat Radcliffe...
...Lunch has been around for years, but Eric Chu, marketing director at Neway, a leading Hong Kong karaoke chain, says his company began to promote it aggressively in 2001 in hopes of drumming up business during off-peak hours. Today, his outlets offer sushi buffets, Internet access and PlayStation consoles. Many are fully booked at lunch. And the recession hasn't hurt business: Neway lowered its prices 10% to 15% last November to lure penny-pinching customers and saw a few more patrons trickle in for the bargain...
...above sea level). Three years later, exhaustion foiled a second attempt at virtually the same height. But on May 21, the 65-year-old British adventurer (and third cousin of actors Joseph and Ralph Fiennes) finally scaled Everest, making him the first man to conquer the world's highest peak and cross the North and South Poles unaided. "I get vertigo and don't like looking down," he says of his time at the summit. "But if you are there, you might as well look once." The day after returning to the U.K., the veteran explorer spoke with TIME about...