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...American fencing in Beijing also saw a silver medal in the women’s team foil event—a win that came as a complete surprise to most who follow fencing. Then again, even Harvard students unfamiliar with the sport might have been unsurprised at the win once learning that it belonged to Emily R. Cross ’08-’10, a member of the Harvard fencing team who has long proven her ability to perform under stressful conditions...
...question of what it means to create something new is certainly interesting, there is hardly a duller medium with which to address it than a drama that focuses on windshield wipers. The tale of the little guy who tries to bring the big company to justice is not an unfamiliar one. In “Erin Brockovich,” Julia Roberts plays a single mom who takes a power company to task for contaminating water supplies. In “The Insider,” Russell Crowe resolves to use his inside knowledge to bring down Big Tobacco...
...We’re at the bottom of the league in turnover ratio, and it’s a very unfamiliar place,” Murphy said...
...right-hander who lives to compete—Walsh calls him a “bulldog”—the toughest part of adjusting to professional ball hasn’t been the better hitters or the work with unfamiliar pitches. It’s been the focus on the individual over the team, the decreased premium placed on winning...
...close their windows when leaving their rooms and not to hold doors open for strangers, a message emphasized over e-mail by Resident Dean Judith F. Chapman and House Master Lee Gehrke. Both strongly discouraged the act known as “piggybacking,” or letting an unfamiliar individual follow a student inside a building that requires card access. But the notice comes too late for Benowitz, who said she would have wanted to know of the DeWolfe robbery sooner. “I’m shocked that we didn’t hear about the first...