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...three years in a row.But that year off did not prevent her from making an immediate impression on the Harvard squad. In fact, there was one aspect of her game that almost certainly improved because of the respite from catching—her hitting.“Over the summer I hit a lot,” Murphy said. “I hit almost every day—just to really get my game back.”And get her game back she has certainly done. Her off-season workouts have produced immense results in the batting department...
...exchange their proposals for economic reform. “We wanted to create an intellectual forum,” said Luis A. Martinez ’08, the lead Harvard representative in the caucus. The caucus, consisting of over 80 Puerto Rican students from Harvard and MIT, formed last summer after the cash-strapped Puerto Rican government shut down for two weeks in May 2006. “We wanted to join together to change the economic downslide,” said Katia Acosta, a senior at MIT and the lead MIT representative at the caucus. The panels offered several...
...Yeltsin had moments that made one believe Russia could shed its authoritarian impulses and emerge as something of a Western-style democracy. His finest hour, really his defining moment, was in August 1991. The leader of the country, Mikahil Gorbachev, was in the Crimea on summer vacation, and dark forces opposed to Gorby and his stop-start reforms tried to stage a coup...
...Boris Yeltsin will be more fondly remembered, as the man who turned the menacing Russian bear of Cold War fear-mongering into a warm and cuddly creature, supine, pitiable and willing to perform in exchange for scraps. And for one glorious moment in the hot summer of 1991, when he stood atop a tank in front of the Russian White House and faced down a coup...
...another first-place finish.Also up for grabs in the 109th installment of this meet were spots at the biennial Oxford-Cambridge challenge, an international competition pitting the individual winners from Harvard and Yale against their rivals from across the pond. In addition to upcoming regional and national championships, this summer competition provides extra incentive for the top finishers of this weekend’s meet to continue their rigorous training.After a disappointing team performance against Yale, the Crimson is looking ahead to the rest of its season.“Ideally, I’d like to jump really well...