Word: toronto
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...Harvard has three weeks off before it plays host to Dartmouth on Jan. 29. The Crimson will spend intersession training in Toronto, but its main focus for the rest of the month will be making sure its full lineup will be available when it faces the Big Green...
...Putnam Competition was originally proposed by a Boston lawyer named William Lowell Putnam as a friendly intercollegiate math competition, and it was first held in 1938 (bragging rights that year went to the University of Toronto). Each year a three-professor committee spends four or five months devising the 12 problems, which are arranged in order of increasing difficulty. It's an all-day affair: two three-hour sessions with a two-hour break. No calculators, no notes, no mercy. "There certainly is a mystique surrounding the exam," says Ravi Vakil, co-author of a book about the exam...
...song-and-dance gal. "In fifth grade," she recalls, "when the music teacher picked people to sing, I wasn't invited." But that was only the beginning. "I didn't make the musical in college," she says ruefully. Even as she mentions this poignant fact--between takes on a Toronto sound stage--she is surrounded by chorines with sequins on their shoes and feathers in their hair who are getting ready to sing and dance behind...
...general manager in a gutsy move to buck the “old baseball minds know best” strategy that produces consistent losers. With luck, Epstein will follow in the footsteps of young guns J.P. Riccardi and Billy Beane as revolutionary general managers. The current GMs of the Toronto Blue Jays and Oakland A’s, respectively, are known for making cutting-edge trades that infuse productive young talent into their organizations...
...high school Twain balanced homework and a counter job at McDonald's--"I learned tons about the meaning of service there," she says enthusiastically--with singing in an '80s-rock cover band. After high school she moved to Toronto and worked as a secretary while hopping from band to band. Three years later, Twain was still struggling for a break when she received a phone call saying her parents were dead. Their car had collided head-on with a logging truck...