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Smith was one of the top sprinters and backstroke specialists in the history of women's Eastern collegiate swimming. In the 1988 NCAA championships, she became the first B.U. woman swimmer to earn All-America honors when she placed sixth in the 100 backstroke. Her time of 56.02 was a school record...
After competing against Harvard swimmers for the past four years, Sybil Smith, a 1988 All-America swimmer at Boston University, has been appointed to the position of Assistant Coach of Women's Swimming at Harvard...
...unrelated. The American is a sensual naif; the Anglo-Irishman is a sophisticated puritan. Twain is happy for small favors; Shaw is ungrateful for major rewards. Presented with the 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, Shaw informs the Royal Swedish Academy that their award is a "lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety." Shaw's dramas brim with advocates of free thought and liberal policy, but his correspondence reveals him as a fool of the new totalitarians. Adolf Hitler is a "wonderful preacher of everything that is right and best in Toryism"; Joseph Stalin...
Kudrin stares down at the chessboard with perfect concentration, looking up from time to time like a swimmer surfacing from a deep dive. As Kudrin meditates, even the smallest background noises are amplified. The ticking of the timer clock on the table, the clinking of the chandelier on the wall, the splash of drinking water into plastic cups all seem unbearably nerve-racking. On the twelfth move Kudrin, playing Black, guilefully offers Hitech a pawn. Hitech can't resist taking it -- thereby opening up the board to a masterful attack. From then on, it's Kudrin's game. Mikhail...
...easy to keep active as a swimmer in Parkersburg because it was, and still is, a swimming hotbed. Parkersburg has not lost the city swimming championships in 15 years. Former members of the team included 1984 Olympic silver medalist Betsy Mitchell, who is favored to win the backstroke in the Seoul Olympics...