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...they’re all gunning for us.” But the squad quickly overcame the tough loss to battle back with a victory against Penn, a team that itself defeated Princeton early in the day to put Harvard back in the Ivy driver’s seat. Each individual team responded by turning things around. The men’s epee in particular recovered with an 8-1 win, with junior Edward Sherrill and freshman Billy Stallings each going 3-0. “I think we were really eager to show what we could do after...
...here, in Springfield, where I saw all that is America converge - farmers and teachers, businessmen and laborers, all of them with a story to tell, all of them seeking a seat at the table, all of them clamoring to be heard. I made lasting friendships here - friends that I see in the audience today...
...woman in what has become the hot seat of higher education, Faust will have to cope with the legacy of former University President Lawrence H. Summers, who sparked a faculty firestorm over the place of women in academia when he suggested in 2005 that “intrinsic aptitude” might account for the scarcity of women on elite science faculties...
...film The Harder They Come premiered at the Carib Theater in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1972. A crowd of some 10,000 turned up and a near-riot ensued. Like all those who got in, the island's Prime Minister and his wife were jammed two or more to a seat, while instead of a red carpet entrance, director Perry Henzell's wife, Sally, had to be bodily lifted in over the heads of the crowd. Just 6 at the time, Henzell's daughter Justine wasn't allowed to attend, even though some of her earliest memories are of being...
...Jamaica four or five years ago, knocked on his door, they were only too pleased to have his creative input. So the musical version of The Harder They Come, as adapted by Perry Henzell and directed by Kerry Michael and Dawn Reid, opened last March at Stratford's 460-seat Theatre Royal, a plush Victorian-era playhouse with a modern mission to foster black and community productions. Against expectations, the musical's short-run became a word-of-mouth success and broke all their box office records, so now the show is being restaged there as a tribute...