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...throwers in the Ivy League,” Pederson said. “It’s just nice when you have friendly training competition. It really keeps everybody on their toes.”The runners fared well, but high finishes were hard to come by after a tough week of practice. Sophomore Aishlinn O’Callaghan, running the 800 meters for the first time all season, took fifth with a time of 2:13.13, a mere .56 seconds ahead of sophomore Jan Ng, who finished seventh.“It’s really hard to perform...
...season, faced one of the toughest fields of competition in the tournament. McGlade and sophomore Maria Larsson finished eighth and 11th, respectively, good enough for each fencer’s second career All-America placement.“I was very happy, especially since the first day was pretty tough,” McGlade said. “Then basically the second day I focused more than I ever had before in my four years. The past few tournaments for me have been my best at Harvard. It was the best way to go out.”Freshman Misha...
...Peter McGuire. Hutton earned a cum laude degree from Salve Regina College, then taught drama and music. Her motto might have been the Johnny Burke-Jimmy Van Heusen novelty number she sang in the movie Duffy's Tavern: "I Have to Do It the Hard Way." She made it tough on everyone: her audience, her colleagues, herself...
...that Loesser was as needy as Hutton; nobody could be. A Runyonesque character like the ones he put into Guy and Dolls, he was the classic little guy buoyed by an irrepressible belief in himself. With oceans of vim and a tough demeanor, Loesser was known to insult co-writers and directors and blow his top at rehearsals. He once got so mad at the way Isabel Bigley, Guys and Dolls' original Sister Sara, was mangling one of his songs that he socked her. Yet under the Cagney bully-bravado shone a big heart and the impulse to help other...
...message Vietnam's leaders were sending with the open trial in Hue. "It's possible they were just trying to tell everyone that they are so strong and so confident that, yeah, you can come into our trials, and they're phony and it's a kangaroo court - and tough luck," Adams says. "It's also entirely possible that somebody in the system considers this is a small reform in opening up trials, even if what happened in the courtroom isn't very pretty." If Vietnam says it's just following the law in its dissident crackdown, the open trial...