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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...
...Kremer founded Prize4life, a nonprofit organization that will provide $10 million worth of rewards to ALS researchers.Boaz and Kremer will officially launch the website prize4life.org and the contest on Friday.To better understand the pharmaceutical market, Kremer had first organized a symposium of major pharmaceutical competitors to discuss what is slowing the discovery of new treatments for ALS. For Prize4Life, Kremer has teamed up with Robert H. Brown Jr., a leading ALS researcher at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. “One hopes that there will be a treatment, an intervention that will slow the disease...
...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...