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...certainly peaked at the right time,” coach Peter Brand says. “During the year, he had his ups and downs, but ultimately, at the end of the year, it all came together for him.”Though Ungar got off to a slow start at the NCAA tournament, going an initial 3-4 in the round robin, he won 15 of the next 16 bouts to finish in the top four and earn a semifinal berth.He thoroughly outplayed Stanford’s Martin Lee in the first semifinal, cruising to a 15-4 victory...
...University President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877. “The freshmen bring a little in and the seniors don’t take much away.” If universities, as Lowell seemed to suggest, are reservoirs of knowledge, then Harvard would be a particularly heavy one, slow to move. The Harvard College Curricular Review is a case in point. It was launched in the fall of 2002, and while the all the review’s committee’s had released their reports by this January, most of their recommendations remain unimplemented. Most of the reforms...
...basketball team came up short.A freshman- and sophomore-laden lineup fell shy in its bid for the Crimson’s second consecutive Ivy League title, as Harvard (12-15, 8-6 Ivy) spent the season struggling to put together a 40-minute offensive effort.The Crimson’s slow starts and untimely miscues sullied a late run for the Ivy title, leaving Harvard out of the hunt by the fifth week of league play.“I’m not quite used to this,” said coach Kathy Delaney-Smith after a win over Penn...
...difficult task—especially when everyone expects you to do it. Though the Harvard men’s volleyball team came into 2006 as favorites to win the reformed Hay Division after capturing the Sweeney Division in the spring of 2005, a spate of injuries and a slow start resulted in a disappointing fourth-place finish for the Crimson. Junior Dave Fitz, Harvard’s only setter with significant collegiate playing experience, suffered an ankle bone bruise on the opening weekend of the season and missed five weeks. Coupled with co-captain Seamus McKiernan’s nagging...
...most famous for his tactless response to the April 2004 video images of the corpses of American military contractors being dragged through the streets of Fallujah, about which he wrote, "I feel nothing... Screw them." While conservatives - and many liberals - criticized Moulitsas's intemperance, the controversy did nothing to slow the site's skyrocketing readership. Indeed, the incident gave him his trademark...