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Christensen also made a strong fifth-place showing at the NCAA Indoor Championships, although her finish represented a slip by one spot after she took fourth as a junior. In a year that produced better overall jumps, Christensen saw her championship effort as a bittersweet result...
...dominance over Ward. Because of this, Vloka found it was difficult to mentally prepare for the match. “I was really nervous and it really showed in my bout,” she said. Luckily, the rookie will have three more years to fight for the top spot in the country. “Caroline had a great year,” Harvard coach Peter Brand said. “She was a very good fencer on the junior level and has really been a tremendous competitor for our squad this year.” Vloka exited...
...Even with a minute left, we thought we were going to win.” With the clock threatening to end the Crimson’s dream run, Baskind was brought down in the box. A few tense moments later, Nichols held her nerve from the spot, and Harvard was crowned champion. “After the goal went in, it was just pure excitement,” Rhodes said. Overall, the Crimson outshot the Lions 25-15, dominating play from the start. The team tallied its first goal of the game in the 27th minute, after a ball from...
Peter Serafinowicz, an actor, says there's a perfectly good explanation for his tweet - "Went to the gym this morning. As I left, everyone said I was the best!" - an observation that earned him a spot on the site's all-time-worst list. "At my local gym, most of the guys (losers) are jealous of me, as (I don't wish to boast) I'm in great shape. I'm pretty sure that they call me names when I'm not around," he wrote in an e-mail. So when his gym mates congratulated him for bench-pressing...
...Security Council. Now, with the test of another nuke on May 25 - this one with more than 20 times the explosive capacity of its predecessor three years ago - Pyongyang has put the Chinese leadership in the one place they hate to be during an international crisis: directly on the spot. Indeed, says Alan Romberg, a former U.S. State Department official now with the Henry L. Stimson Center in Washington, "Pyongyang has spit in the [People's Republic of China's] eye." (See pictures of North Koreans going to the polls...