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Harvard came through in the clutch, and it now faces another string of clutch weekends that will determine the Crimson’s representation in the national co-ed fleet and team racing championships...
...burned to the ground. He had escaped, blinded by smoke. Oh, yes, he had also been in a serious earthquake as a child in Peru and in several smaller ones in Los Angeles years later. He was, you could say, a disaster expert. And there's nothing like a string of bad luck to prepare you for the unthinkable...
In 1994, Kelli Lawless, 24, of O'Fallon, Mo., waited for test results she hoped would solve the mystery of her failing health. For years, she had been plagued by a string of illnesses including sinus infections, pneumonia and two bouts of shingles, but her doctor had never performed a test that would have been routine for someone else with those symptoms. "He said that people like me--a white, middle-class, non-drug-using, college-educated woman in Iowa-- didn't get HIV/AIDS." Alas, in Lawless's case, he was mistaken. Testing showed that she was positive...
Although it wasn’t visible from the stage, first violinist Dickerman has developed a light bruise on her neck where she holds her instrument—an affliction that appears to plague at least half the string section. Many of them practice for hours a day in the week before a major concert, although their busy Harvard schedules put them at an inherent disadvantage in comparison to the pre-professionals enrolled in conservatories...
...There was confidence in the dugout,” Allard said. “We had a lot of hits, but we were struggling to string them together. We got an opportunity in the last inning to get it done...