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...season ever. After that: a repeat of her Junior Worlds glory. It was an improbable ending to a season that started off slowly; despite strong performances in Ivy play, Cross struggled in international competition. “There was a lot of rust there,” Crimson coach Peter Brand says. “But I think she revitalized and she gained some energy throughout the year. As we were moving forward through the season, it looked like she was getting stronger and stronger again.” That’s the way Cross works. Even though...
...level. He won a bronze medal at the Intercollegiate Fencing Association championships, helping Harvard win the title. Less than 10 days later, Ungar won the NCAA Northeast Regional, clinching a berth in the national tournament.“He certainly peaked at the right time,” coach Peter Brand says. “During the year, he had his ups and downs, but ultimately, at the end of the year, it all came together for him.”Though Ungar got off to a slow start at the NCAA tournament, going an initial...
...poets formed the fourth group. The one I never met was Frank O’Hara. My memory of Ashbery I’m afraid is tinged by an unfortunate encounter with his partner. Others I had met were Donald Hall, Peter Davison, Adrienne Rich, Phil Levine, Stephen Sandy, Robert Creeley (unknown to each other, we were judges for the 1987 American Awards and met at the reception), Robert Kelly, Allen Ginsberg, and Peter Orlovsky. “Howl” had just been published to be immediately banned in public and on the airwaves. Rumor had it that Ginsberg...
When thirteen tons of aluminum and steel have demanded a push, the type that higher powers never had in mind when they designed human bodies and charter buses, ordinary motorists have been known to get angry. Peter Brand, head coach of the Harvard men’s and women’s fencing teams, was getting there on February 12, the morning of the Ivy League tournament at Columbia. He took one last look through his bus window at the worst New York City snowstorm on record, a blizzard that dropped 26.9 inches of snow on Central Park, and grabbed...
...Bargewell's report on his findings is likely to be delivered soon to Lt. Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the second-ranking U.S. general in Iraq, and then passed on to Rumsfeld in Washington. A separate criminal investigation by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service will take longer to complete. Warner, however, says in his letter he wants to "hold a series of hearings" on Haditha and he wants the Pentagon to come forward with its findings quickly, and not wait for all the probes to be completed...