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...Coach Freed has been great. He was the captain of the water polo team my freshman year. He's the unsung hero of Harvard water polo," Walley says. "He's especially sensitive to the concerns of the student athlete. We have a lot of fun. I look forward to practice every...

Author: By David B. Lat, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: From Politics to Polo | 10/22/1992 | See Source »

Players who face the Americans will not be the only ones experiencing a revelation: fans will too. The old-style Games, in which a collection of the mostly unheralded and unpaid would suddenly achieve the glory of champions, are utterly gone. Sure, the unsung heroes of team handball will still have their moment on the podium. And a modestly compensated athlete with little chance of a medal, such as U.S. table-tennis player Sean O'Neill, will nonetheless bask in the chance to compete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Traditions Pro Vs. Amateur | 7/27/1992 | See Source »

Anchoring the team along with Miller has been a group of unsung defenders and midfielders, including junior Chad Prusmack, Co-Captain Brian Connolly, senior Mike Tauckus, junior Eric Bentley, senior Dennis Murphy and senior Pete Welch...

Author: By Y. TAREK Farouki, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Explosive Brown Hosts Laxmen | 4/15/1992 | See Source »

...Klerk has been, for the most part, an unsung hero, forced to tread a fine line between National Party voters still committed to the maintenance of apartheid, and ANC members, concerned that the reform process will be stalled. He has had a number of factors stacked against him in his crusade...

Author: By Dangalira K. Mughogho, | Title: Dangerous Ground | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

Robertson should be praised for doing something which has never been done to this degree: relating in detail and with compassion the story of the women of the Times, especially the stories of those like Wade, Cook and Glueck, who are the unsung heroes of the women's movement. They were women who put their own potentially high profile careers on the line for the sake of 600 other women on their paper and the millions of women and men who read and are influenced by the Times...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Hear the Ladies Of the Gray Lady | 2/20/1992 | See Source »

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