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...should have brought a fan,” Rubin jokes. They both laugh at the incongruity—two bookish types morphing into celebrities with wind-swept hair...
Different venue. Same result. Three weeks after falling 3-0 to Penn at the Palestra, the Harvard women’s volleyball team was swept by the Quakers at home, losing 3-0 (30-24, 30-23, 30-26) Saturday afternoon at the Malkin Athletic Center. Despite the solid all-around play of outside hitters Laura Mahon and Kathryn McKinley, the Crimson (3-17, 0-10 Ivy) ran its winless streak to nine matches. “I have a long-standing hatred of Penn,” co-captain Elizabeth Blotky said. “Everyone always gets fired...
...confidence,” Kerr said. “We were resilient and we haven’t been recently when we had been under duress in other games.” Going into overtime, both the Crimson and the Tigers played with more gusto than the winds that swept across the field, but neither team could connect the ball with the net, much to the players’ dismay. “I wasn’t happy with the tie, and there were too many defensive errors,” Tornaritis said. “We should have...
...SHAH OF IRAN OR AYATULLAH KHOMEINI? The Shah of Iran. He wanted to be on TV. He was comfortable with being asked any question as long as you preceded it with "Your Majesty." When I interviewed the Ayatullah, he walked in, I put out my hand and he swept past me, sat down and waited for the questions. They had been approved in advance, but I asked one they did not approve. I thought, What are they going to do? Take me hostage? "Anwar Sadat says you are a lunatic," I asked. Of course, he doesn't speak English...
...flimsy roofs of the homes at Kamsa crumpled like tin foil, and three schools were swept down into the raging Neelum river. Students who lived through the fall were swept to their deaths in the rapids...