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...fourth place the entire weekend, displaying its consistency and depth across the board. The Crimson closed the meet with a third-place finish in the 400 freestyle relay. Additionally, junior Pat Quinn garnered points for Harvard with a seventh-place finish in the 50-yard freestyle and a sixth in the 100 freestyle...
...Harvard freshman class, one of the largest in recent years, had a strong performance this weekend. Mason Brunnick finished sixth in the 500 freestyle, while classmate Jordan Waterman had solid sprints both individually and as a member of relay teams...
...individual match.“The weekend was a good test for us since we had to play two matches back to back,” said captain Ilan Oren, who swept both of his matches in the second position. Because sophomore Verdi DiSesa, who usually plays in the sixth position, did not travel with the team this weekend, some players had a chance to play in a slightly higher position then usual. “They had better matches,” Oren said. “And basically they stepped up and rose to the occasion...
...Watching the premature and apparently unself-conscious aging of the participants, I wonder if, in the fifth or sixth year of each cycle, they say to themselves, "Time to get a rinse, lose a stone or two, pull my marriage together and straighten out my kids." But that may be the bias of an American, relying on the superficial, the lure of eternal adolescence, more than your average Brit...
...With Taipei likely to remain a stronghold of the opposition Kuomintang (KMT), the DPP's hopes ride on Kaohsiung. The city, the world's sixth busiest port, is in southern Taiwan, the DPP's traditional power base, where voters back the party's support for Taiwanese nationalism. But unlike more rural parts of the south, DPP support in Kaohsiung is uneven. While the DPP's Frank Hsieh won mayoral elections in 1998 and 2002, his KMT challenger in the last race, a 64-year-old former university administrator and onetime deputy mayor named Huang Jun-ying, nearly handed...