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...story of the weekend was Penn’s historical finish at the 54-hole event. The Quaker squad featured three top-10 individual finishers—including freshman Isabel Han, individual runner-up to Roland by one stroke??and no golfer outside...
...day’s five races. Additionally, the varsity eight, novice eight, and second novice eight all handily defeated MIT, as the Engineers finished at a distant third in each event. In the first race of the day, the Crimson’s varsity eight stayed stroke for stroke??and was even up a length—on the Big Green throughout the course. The fight was tight from the very beginning, as Harvard found itself only down one seat after the start sequence. “We had planned to take a big first 20 strokes...
...public crime—by which I mean three centimeters of exposed hip—was apparently atrocious enough to warrant a complete stranger yanking my t-shirt down and proceeding to shoot me a look of disdain that—at one fell stroke??dismissed me based on nothing more than the clothes I was wearing. But the Egyptian taboo against baring even the smallest bit of skin runs much deeper than mere cultural norms; it is rooted in religion. One does not need to travel to Cairo to witness it—the hijab, or headscarf...
After dutifully watching me practice rowing in the leaky wooden training box/boat without too much trouble—at one point even saying “that was a perfect stroke??—my kindly instructor left me sitting alone in the box to practice some more while he went to attend to whatever pressing things one attends to in a completely empty boathouse...
...leaders of biomedical research. Yet, what’s happening is that the U.S. is falling behind. Stem cell research could potentially provide cures for devastating diseases such as Parkinson’s, diabetes and stroke??but until we try, we won’t know,” she said...