Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...23rd-ranked Crimson finished its annual road trip to the West with a 1-5 record, dropping its overall record to 7-11. Harvard lost to 16th-ranked San Diego, 6-0, U.S. International 6-3, 18th-ranked San Diego State, 6-3, third-ranked UCLA, 7-2, and 12th-ranked Pepperdine, 5-1. But the Crimson destroyed Cal-State, 9-0, to close out the trip...
...Crimson's toughest match of the trip was against third-ranked UCLA. In singles action, Nikki Rival was the only one to win a match against the powerful Bruin squad...
Dragomirescu won the first set, 7-5, then pulled out to a 4-2 lead in the second set. But Emmons rallied to take the second set, 6-4, and the third, 6-2, to stave off the upset...
...runway, Kelly wrestles with the tiniest details. Two hours before the last show, he was backstage in the Louvre tent amid models, dressers, seamstresses, hairdressers, makeup artists, lighting technicians and stagehands. "Paint those red lips!" he ordered. "I want you to look like you just got rid of your third husband!" Dashing through mounds of hats decorated with rhinestone Eiffel Towers, past racks of pink minks, turquoise ostrich feathers, Mexican blankets and red sequined gowns, he fusses with a model's hair. He directs a seamstress to stitch a new lining in a fur cape. Three minutes before showtime, Kelly...
...studies but that the school does not have a budget for formal tutoring. He says the real problem was that Reggie failed to apply himself. "Abe Lincoln and them people were self-taught," he said. But Reggie's teachers say he did try, he struggled to overcome a third-grade reading level, fought off the exhaustion of practice and in the end succumbed to the realization that he could not catch up. "He was hoping against hope," says Jack Carmichael, who heads the school's social sciences program. "Goddam, he deserved it. He wanted to have the initiative to make...