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...taxi drivers I’ve met this summer, however, no longer ask me where I’ve learned such good Chinese. Instead, when I attempt to relay my destination, they invariably turn to me, raising their eyebrows through the standard plastic panel that encases the driver’s seat. For the first few days, I thought (or hoped) that their looks of confusion had more to do with the plastic—maybe they couldn’t hear me through its one-eighth inch thickness...
...Wearne, who ran the 100-m dash but did not earn a medal. Wearne went on to participate in the 1938 British Empire Games, which were held in her hometown of Sydney, finished third in the 220-yd. sprint and earned gold as a member of the 440-yd. relay team. Throughout her life, Wearne remained active in the Olympic movement. And at age 95, she was Australia's longest-lived Olympian...
...people running these institutions are people who either went through or know about what happened in the sixties,” says G. Garrett Epps ’72, now a University of Oregon law professor who in 1969 was a freshman helping to relay camera film from University Hall to reporters at The Crimson...
...only one event. Rathgeber trounced the competition in the 200-yard individual medley, 400-yard individual medley, and the 200-yard backstroke, setting pool records in all three and a meet record in the 200-yard individual medley. The junior also placed second in the 400-yard medley relay and the 200-yard free relay. Rathgeber tied with sophomore Alex Righi of Yale for most individual points (96), and the two shared the Most Outstanding Swimmer Award for meet...
...Saturday afternoon of relay races, hula-hooping, and card games in the Quad was interrupted by a call to the police. What was it about this group that made their presence so jarring to the general sense of security? An open email discussion between Harvard students that referred to this group as “random,” “non-Harvard,” “young-looking” people who were “trampling the grass” indicates the answer. Despite similar events in the Quad, such as “Quad...