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...bout with early puberty. "I am really very excitable," says her mom, "and I had to get all that under control and make her feel that what she was going through was normal." The result, says Sharon: "I don't remember much about all that. I couldn't go swimming when I had my period. And I still can't, and I love to swim. That's the only difference it made with...
...Never Swim Alone portrays ambition and rivalry taken to their violent extremes, and what better venue than Harvard? Daniel MacIvor's "play in 13 rounds" as it has been called, pits boyhood friends Bill (Daniel P. Berwick '01) and Frank (James A. Carmichael '01) against one another in a series of contests, from mundane height comparisons to explosive verbal sparring to physical violence. The match is refereed by a mysterious woman (Kathleen A. Agresta '01), who, in addition to narrating, also becomes a specter from the boys' past...
...NEVER SWIM ALONE...
...orcas. When eventually the pod left the feeding ground, Keiko swam in line with them. "It's like taking your kid to school for his first day," says animal behaviorist Jeff Foster, who has worked with whales for 30 years. But Keiko did not, Hollywood-style, swim off with his relatives into the sunset on this August day. Once again he returned to the boat and his more familiar human companions...
...captivity. Bit by bit, he has had to be distanced from humans, and his trainers reluctantly have had to drop, albeit gradually, the affectionate fuss they made over him. Physically, too, Keiko has had to be conditioned for a different life. The easy parts were training him to swim faster and for longer periods and, using weighted balls placed at different depths, to dive ever deeper. It was trickier to teach him to catch his own, live fish after years of frozen-fish dinners...