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...somewhere else, and I’m really happy, is it worth uprooting myself for the unknown?”And then, of course, there’s always the fact that Cheek stands at the pinnacle of his former sport. Having reached the Olympic awards podium twice in February, Cheek is retiring at a time when he is one of the best speedskaters in the world.So will Joey Cheek ever return to the sport he once dominated?“I couldn’t rule it out entirely,” Cheek admits. “The lifestyle...
...work was very much driven by his love of people. “Phil was focused on real people, real problems, real-life situations,” he said. Throughout the service, a number of other audience members—including several students—came to the podium to share memories of Stone, relating how he had touched their lives and changed their perspectives. At the beginning of his eulogy, the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian morals and minister in Memorial Church, made light of the occasional tension between those in the fields of religion...
From cellar dweller to national champion, from a blizzard in New York to the champions’ podium in Houston, the Harvard fencing team added perhaps the only unwritten chapter to its 100-year history at Rice on Sunday...
...leads the line, and a cadet holding the American flag. She and the other cadets march slowly, trying to keep in step. When they arrived early to practice, they had a hard time marching exactly together. Now, as they cross the wooden dance floor in front of the podium, the beat of their footsteps is audibly regular. In the photos of herself in her room, Waterman is usually hugging a friend, and always flashing her wide, white grin. The photographs taken of her tonight will be different. Her face is serious, almost frowning, as she tries to hold her flag...
...imagine that I was a little bit puzzled as to what I should say in speaking to a conference on women in leadership,” Summers joked at the beginning of his remarks. Grasping a tightly leashed microphone while casually leaning against a podium, Summers appeared comfortable with the audience of nearly 100 people, speaking without notes and cracking the occasional joke during his half-hour-long remarks. Summers said that since January 2005, when he delivered his now-infamous remarks at a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) conference, he has learned that “the preconceptions...