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...were going about it all wrong, he said. We needed to enjoy ourselves, have fun and relish the fact that we get to play Division I volleyball and go to Harvard. For a young coach to be able to rally and inspire his players to such success is a testament to the great things he did for the program this year...
...testament to Harvard coach Peter Brand, who in just four years has turned the program around and into a rising powerhouse. As a result, it will be impossible for the Crimson to score an upset nearing this magnitude anytime in the near future. The rest of the college fencing world now knows what to expect, and anything Harvard does next year will not be completely unexpected...
...succeeded in making the usually square Director of the Harvard Foundation S. Allen Counter look like John Shaft. But then I had another thought: the fact that these two men, hopelessly disheveled as they were, had ascended to the leadership of Harvard College and Harvard University was a wonderful testament to the genuine meritocracy of this place. These two men, the grandchildren of immigrants, had risen to the top of the greasy pole without the benefit of grace or style, but merely on the strength of their intellectual acumen...
...Elephant, an ordinary day in an Oregon high school erupts into massacre, Columbine-style. In Lars von Trier's Dogville, which had all the early buzz but left without any prizes, a beautiful stranger (Nicole Kidman) takes a load of abuse in a Colorado town, then, like an Old Testament God in an I'm-sick-of-Sodom mood, has everyone gunned down. Brazilian director Hector Babenco ended his Carandiru with the slaughter of innocents in a S?o Paulo jail, and Austrian Michael Haneke depicted the moral chaos attending an unexplained disaster in his testy The Time of the Wolf...
...We’ve just been blessed—it’s been great to win the races by that much,” Blomquist said. “I think it’s a testament to how hard the crew works and how much the crew wants to win. Some people might be happy with six seats. Everyone wants to get the biggest margin possible. We don’t quit till we cross the finish...