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...Cornell my whole life,” O’Connor recalls. “That’s 45 minutes from home. I grew up being a Big Red wrestling fan.” He loved his Cornell visit, but out of all of his recruiting trips, one stood out in particular. In Cambridge, O’Connor felt some sort of mysterious Crimson calling. Harvard seemed to make sense on paper, but there was something else that he couldn’t pinpoint. “They had a great program,” he said of Harvard...
...starters, was no high school locker room at halftime, with sweaty teenagers scratching their gym socks. Robed Supreme Court Justices and barrel-chested generals sat in the front row at the U.S. House Chamber, a gold-encrusted place overflowing with political power. For a quarter-mile around, police stood shivering in the cold, watchful in clumps on street corners, stopping anyone who looked out of place. (Read the full text of Obama's speech...
...everyone in the room received the speech with the same eager delight. At one end of the chamber, Jon Favreau, Obama's 27-year-old speechwriter, stood nervously with his back against the wall, alternately mouthing the words as Obama spoke them, applauding and checking his BlackBerry for reactions from the ether. At the other end of the chamber sat a diminished Republican caucus, self-consciously rising and falling like pistons to show their alternate approval and disdain for the President's policy prescriptions...
...turn of the 20th century, the landmarks that now define Harvard were still a distant reality. Where the Harvard Kennedy School is now, a railroad yard stood. The land that would later host Eliot and Winthrop Houses were occupied by an unsightly mixture of power plants, coal yards, and store houses. The present-day iconic buildings, including Widener, Lamont Library, and the Science Center had yet to be built...
...streak and team-leading eighth technical fall, the weekend looked promising for the Crimson. After a tough loss at 165 to freshman Bryan Panzano, sophomore Andy Olsen (174) and Caputo (184) regained momentum and clinched the victory with a fall and technical fall, respectively. Senior Patrick Ziemnik also stood out this weekend at 197, wrestling up two weight classes. Due to the absence of both heavyweights for medical reasons, Ziemnik stepped up to help the team.“To me [Ziemnik’s effort] really stands out,” Weiss said.Ziemnik held his own, only falling...