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...season after suffering a stress fracture to his leg in preseason play. And Unger did not disappoint. In a sparse thirteen minutes of play, the big man contributed. Unger tallied nine points, four rebounds, and two assists on a night when the Crimson needed a spark. With sophomore standout Jeremy Lin and Housman combining for four points in the first half, Unger was able to fill in, as the captain notched seven of his nine points in the first frame. And his biggest shot was his first, as Unger nailed a three just thirty seconds after entering the game...
...assistant and player Claudia Asano ’99 as its new head coach. Asano is an accomplished recruiter going back to her days with Harvard, and could draw a higher level of talent to the Dutchwomen than the squad has been used to in recent years. Former Crimson standout goalie Ali Boe ’06 is also on the Union coaching staff...
Sophomore soccer standout Andre Akpan has yet another accolade to add to his more than lengthy list of accomplishments. The Grand Prairie, Texas native was recently named one of 15 semifinalists for the prestigious Hermann Trophy. The Hermann Trophy, which is given out by the Missouri Athletic Club, is awarded to the top Division I soccer player in the country, and has never before been presented to a Harvard athlete. Akpan—who led the Ivy League in points, scoring and assists this past season, as well as being ranked second nationally in scoring with a 2.06 points...
This week's murder of pro football star Sean Taylor by still unknown assailants was tragic. But for residents of Miami, where Taylor was shot early Monday morning in his suburban home during an apparent break-in, it also felt tragically familiar. Taylor, 24, a standout safety for the Washington Redskins, was an equally stellar defensive back for the University of Miami Hurricanes. And his untimely death was just the latest in what has become an unsettling succession of violent ends for active and former UM players...
...foreign art-house circuit. French novelists are focusing increasingly on the here and now: one of the big books of this year's literary rentrée, Yasmina Reza's L'Aube le Soir ou la Nuit (Dawn Dusk or Night) is about Sarkozy's recent electoral campaign. Another standout, Olivier Adam's A l'Abri de Rien (In the Shelter of Nothing), concerns immigrants at the notorious Sangatte refugee camp. France's Japan-influenced bandes dessinées (comic-strip) artists have made their country a leader in one of literature's hottest genres: the graphic novel. Singers like...