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...gates running on Saturday with impressive performances from rookies and seniors alike. And though the first day of competition was mostly preliminary rounds, Harvard still managed to bring home two individual championships.Leading the way was freshman sensation Nico Weiler, who won his first outdoor Heps championship in the pole vault by clearing 5.20 meters.“Nico had a great outdoor season. He really rebounded well after a somewhat disappointing Indoor Championship. He’s a great competitor and he has a tendency to rise up when the stakes are the highest.”Sophomore Jessica Fronk...
...lower-income workers into account. At an institution in which values such as diversity, sustainability, and public service—none of them “core” to Harvard’s educational mission—nonetheless inhabit the niche of respected priorities, where on the totem pole do we place the struggles of Harvard’s least fortunate...
...freshman Lauren Barber in the shotput, as well as a second place effort from high jumper Dina Emde, Harvard tallied a total of 112 points en route to a fourth-place finish.The men’s team enjoyed less success at UMass, although sophomore Sean Gil took the pole vault with a jump of 4.65 meters. Junior Jack Brady notched a third place finish in the hammer throw, but Harvard could not stave off an eighth-place finish, topping only University of Hartford.DRAKE RELAYSSharing the Des Moines, Iowa track at Drake University with professional athletes, the Crimson held...
...lots of animals - none of them cartoons. The ambitious new nature film called Earth chronicles a year in the life of the planet, opening in the dead of winter at the Arctic, with a mother polar bear peeking her snout out of the snow, and ending at the opposite pole, in the brief Antarctic summer amid a dance of humpback whales...
...Fothergill capture a caravan of elephants crossing the brutal Kalahari Desert, along with a pride of hungry lions, and the rainbow of natural marvels contained in the rainforests of Papua New Guinea. The narrative theme is the sun, the source of life and the bringer of seasons, from one pole to the other. The film is narrated by James Earl Jones...