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...ability of athletes to fail and take it isn’t some lesson in suffering. It makes the successes so much sweeter. I’ll never forget the joy that rushed through me after the men’s hockey team beat Cornell in the 2002 ECAC Championship. It was an amazing accomplishment on its own, but it would not have felt nearly so good had the team not played so terribly just a month before...
...This was a great way to end it,” Witcher said. “[Beating Yale] made it so much sweeter...
...faster crew, and that the result coming into the last 500 wasn’t the way it should be. I’m proud of the guys in my boat that everyone dug down and did it and knew they could. It made the victory that much sweeter...
...Having gotten the Hoopes prize definitely makes it more likely that I’ll want to pursue this more—it’s definitely a sweeter option now,” said Julia Chuang ’03, who spent last summer collecting stories and data in Chinese sweatshops to research her prizewinning project on labor migration in China. “But this just says that somebody appreciates all this work I did—it’s validation for what you’ve done...
...American Juniors, Fox's summer Idol follow-up with 6-to-13-year-old singers, will not even have judges, just an audience vote.) But what the Idolettes sometimes don't understand is that Idol's meanness makes the apotheosis of its winner all the sweeter (and thus more marketable). The welcome exception is Born to Diva, a blessedly catty celebration of show-biz egocentrism. Its female belters may not be as talented as Idol's, but they are adept in the diva-esque arts of eye rolling, backbiting and referring to oneself in the third person. That will serve...