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...junior Sasha Ermakov took a resounding first step toward a strong 2007-08 campaign by winning the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s 2007 Summer Championships last week in Bloomington, Ind. With the tournament victory, Kumar and Ermakov qualify for a wild-card birth in the 2007 Polo Ralph Lauren All-American Tennis Championships in early October. On its way to victory, the Crimson pair beat opponents that gave the Harvard team as a whole—and this duo in particular—fits last year. In the final, Kumar and Ermakov took down Houston Barrick and Dominic Inglot...
...hurt? Yes! How the hell did they think I'd feel?" Ralph Asher Alpher once said of Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, the astronomers who won the 1978 Nobel Prize for the Big Bang theory without citing Alpher--30 years after he had proposed the notion in his doctoral dissertation. The physicist was eventually recognized for his work, with awards including the National Medal of Science...
...report cleared some DOD personnel of wrongdoing but concluded that the chaplain, Colonel Ralph G. Benson, had "provided a selective benefit" to the Christian Embassy by "mischaracterizing" the video as a documentation of the chaplain's ministry rather than a film promoting the Christian Embassy group and intended for outside consumption. The mischaracterization, the report noted, enabled the video's makers to film in recognizable Pentagon locations...
...know that exercise can help prevent heart disease. But it was not always a closed case, at least not scientifically. In the 1960s, Harvard epidemiologist Dr. Ralph Paffenbarger Jr. set out to prove just that. In a pioneering study that tracked exercise and health, Paffenbarger and colleagues found that vigorous exercise could indeed lengthen life expectancy and combat chronic disease. Paffenbarger would also conclude that the benefits of exercise could be had even when starting late in life. The researcher practiced what he preached: at age 45, the once sedentary Paffenbarger, who died at 84, became a long-distance runner...
...Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene (Don Cheadle) found his calling in jail where he was permitted two daily 20-minute spots as a disc jockey on the prison's public address system. In that unlikely context, he primitively pioneered something akin to the now ubiquitous shock-jock style. With the help of a straight-arrow program director named Dewey Hughes (Chiwetel Ejiofor), he pretty much elbowed his way into a job at WOL-AM, a near-moribund Washington, DC radio station, whose audience was basically black and basically fed up with conventional broadcasting...