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...team makes tournaments like this extremely useful, and the players said they were pleased with their weekend’s work. Particularly encouraging was the play of freshman Agnes Sibilski. Playing in the top singles flight of the tournament, Sibilski won her first two matches, beating a seeded opponent as well as a fellow freshman from Yale. In the end, she went down to one of the tournament’s top players. Not only have the rookies on the team been impressive on the court, but their presence in the locker room has also been very positive...
...October where attendees discussed the service days at their own schools. Fleming and Rafferty noted that their own alma maters, Wellesley and Bates, already have days of service. They then started to coordinate with representatives from the Phillips Brooks House Association and the Undergraduate Council, garnering a $10,000 seed grant from the Provost’s Office and raising an additional $10,000 from various sponsors. Undergraduate Council Vice President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09, one of the day’s main organizers, said preparing the event strengthened ties between College and graduate students. Despite...
...fact, this fashion fairy tale began 11 years ago, when Mellon, 39, then an accessories editor at British Vogue, spotted the potential of an East London shoemaker. With seed capital in the form of a £150,00 ($307,000) loan from her father Tommy Yeardye, who made his fortune with Vidal Sassoon hair products, she set about turning Jimmy Choo into a global brand...
...McCanns, of course, initially helped whip up public interest in the disappearance. After Madeleine first went missing, they launched a massive media campaign that was endorsed by celebrities - billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson this week started a McCann defense fund with around $200,000 of seed money - and they even got a meeting with the Pope. The YouGov poll indicated that some of the anti-McCann sentiment in the U.K. is a negative response to their self-generated publicity...
...Open earlier this year, with a website that has registered more hits than that of the previous tennis bombshell, Maria Sharapova of Russia. Jelena Jankovic, 22, is headed for a quarterfinals match with Venus Williams on Wednesday night at the U.S. Open in New York. Meanwhile, Djokovic, the third seed at the Open, just behind Federer and Nadal and ahead of Roddick, made it into the quarterfinals on Tuesday night after a hard-fought four setter against the Argentine Juan Monaco. In a country where football and basketball have long held pride of place, hundreds of thousands tuned into late...