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Still, as Chu moves up the ranks of the pro tour, he will begin to face a different brand of athlete, and to succeed, he will have to call on more than just conditioning and skill. Making it to the upper echelons of the tennis universe, as James Blake did, requires something extra, according to Fish...

Author: By Jonathan B. Steinman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Circling the Globe For a Tennis Dream | 11/1/2006 | See Source »

Winter formal season may still be more than a month away, but Harvard students and Boston residents were putting their dancing skills to good use this Saturday at the Ballroom Dance Team’s first competition of the year. The 14th Annual Harvard Beginner’s Competition took place in the Malkin Athletic Center basketball court, where high heels traversed the three-point line with a lithe daintiness rarely shown by the venue’s typical visitors. The event—held on Saturday—was host to mainly new dancers, although some in the Bronze...

Author: By Erin F. Riley, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ball Held On B-Ball Court | 10/30/2006 | See Source »

...Dirty Blonde, her newly published diaries, COURTNEY LOVE exhibits a heretofore unappreciated level of self-knowledge, vocabulary and scrapbooking skill. The bricolage of old photos, handwritten lyrics and musings include Love's teen aspirations-- "I have a rage for success"--and juvenile group- home reports. The rocker-widow- provocateur writes to her dead spouse about their daughter's teacher and describes an Easter-egg hunt at Liz Taylor's house. "I love being famous," Love says. "Because no one else has it. Because it's psychicly [sic] charging. Because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 6, 2006 | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

...emotionally this was a character a number of people around me were happy to say goodbye to. This is a man who has found a sense of worth in his skill as a soldier, and he's returning to the streets of L.A. He's a prick, [yet] I enjoyed his company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 6, 2006 | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

...filled out with full brass, wind, and timpani—had reached the part of the concert for which it was best prepared. It is hard to go wrong with Mendelssohn’s winsome opening melody, and the orchestra passed it from one section to another with skill. The ornamented scherzo section of the first movement was bright and charming, and grew into an exciting frenzy. A difficult clarinet solo which opens the second movement was rendered with seeming ease by Andrew P. Lowy ’09, a great asset to the orchestra’s wind section...

Author: By Rachel B Nolan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Skillful Bach Soc Wins Crowd | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

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