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...suspected it might be a portrait of the Bard. Three years ago, Alec Cobbe, who had inherited much of the collection in the 1980s and placed it in trust, found himself at an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London called "Searching for Shakespeare." There he saw a painting from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., that had been accepted until the late 1930s as a portrait of Shakespeare from life. Looking at it, Cobbe felt certain the Folger painting was a copy of the one in his family's collection. He asked Wells, an old friend...
...Clayton. “At a certain point in the match, it could have gone either way.”The tie secured, Harvard wrapped up moments later with a pair of gritty victories. After a number of missed match points in the second set, No. 4 Hayes finally saw off the tenacious Shao in three sets (6-3, 6-7, 6-3), while at No. 2, Chijoff-Evans marked a complete turnaround over Medan in a fiercely contested 1-6, 7-6, 6-4 win. Despite the margin of victory for the Crimson, it was tested to the limit...
...nine point deficit to tie the score at 28, but suffered a 33-31 setback that put the match in jeopardy. But the host squad buckled down late and drew on strong hitting and a service ace by sophomore Shaun Mansour to force a decisive fifth set.The final frame saw Weissbourd and Jones erupt on offense. The rookie hammered home four kills in a row to give Harvard a 9-3 cushion, while Weissbourd notched a kill and two blocks to close out the match, 15-12.Jones hesitated to take much credit for the team’s clutch hitting, citing...
...decisions to earn a matchup with No. 5 Jordan Leen of Cornell. Although O’Connor topped the second-seed 7-5 earlier this year, it was Leen’s turn for retribution, as the Big Red senior notched an 8-2 victory in a match that saw O’Connor injured.“It was a dirty match I felt,” Harvard coach Jay Weiss fumed. “[O’Connor] tweaked his knee and the match should’ve been stopped. Now’s he?...
...Dodd's aides point to Obama's dominant 61% victory in Connecticut in an election that saw the defeat of the state's (and New England's) lone House Republican, Chris Shays. "Connecticut is trending blue. Even if Dodd only got 70% of Obama's voters, he'd still easily win," says one adviser. "His potential opponent Rob Simmons couldn't even hold Connecticut's Second District - how is he going to win statewide...