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...both the 100- and 200-meter swims. The Crimson swept the events and then some, capturing the first four places each time.Sophomore Jordan Diekema placed first in both the 100- and 200- backstroke, with times of 50.67 and 1:52.01, respectively. Freshman Ian Mirisola, sophomore Derick Chui and freshman Rob Newell claimed the next three spots in the 100-meter event, with Mirisola and Chui swapping places in the 200-meter swim.Junior Alex Meyer was another decisive force for Harvard, finishing first in both the 1650-meter freestyle and 500-meter freestyle. After staying neck-and-neck with Navy?...
...died without divulging. But maybe he was reluctant to say what what his plays "meant" or what the figures in them symbolized because he didn't know - that he was not so much their author as their midwife, and that to explain the process, to himself or others, would rob him of the freedom of encountering them and putting them on paper. In his Nobel speech, which tried to explain his method of evasion, Pinter said, "It's a strange moment, the moment of creating characters who up to that moment have had no existence. What follows is fitful, uncertain...
...that paragraph as much a chore to read as it was to write? Any comedy with 11 major actors - not including Sandler's wife Jackie and daughter Sadie, the inevitable turn by Rob Schneider (another Sandler familiar, John Turturro, sat this one out) and a goggle-eyed guinea pig named Bugsy - is either (a) brilliantly dense in the Preston Sturges tradition or (b) just an overcongested mess. Go with...
Though a Boston businessman named Charles Ponzi was the scam's namesake, he wasn't its original practitioner. According to Mitchell Zuckoff, a Ponzi biographer, the reigning king of the "rob Peter to pay Paul" scam was a New York grifter named William Miller, who bilked investors out of $1 million - nearly $25 million in today's dollars - in 1899. After drumming up interest by claiming to have an inside window into the way profitable companies operated, Miller - who earned the nickname "520 percent" due to the astonishing rate of return he promised investors over the course of a year...
...said. “He’s a solid defender, solid inside, and a really good shooter outside. He’s shown the confidence to hit big shots late in the game.” GW forward Damian Hollis had a game-high 22 points, and forward Rob Diggs and guard Tony Taylor also posted double figures with 12 and 11, respectively. —Staff writer Walter E. Howell can be reached at wehowell@fas.harvard.edu...