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Also losing for Harvard was Nguyen, who had the misfortune of facing Stanford’s James Wan, a freshman who is now riding a 15-match win streak...

Author: By Rebecca A. Seesel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Tennis Can't Get Past Top Competition to Open West Coast Swing | 4/5/2004 | See Source »

...even the play’s lesser performances are interesting enough to keep the audience halfway involved, anticipating the next interesting light cue or richly wan aside. Roberto Zucco isn’t a worthwhile play, but this shrewd and well-intentioned company has made an agreeable production...

Author: By Benjamin J. Soskin, ON THEATRE | Title: Review: 'Zucco' Succeeds Despite Script | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

...hands against one of El Greco's typically stormy skies, his face seen in violent perspective. The martyrs seem pallid and rubbery, but the scene has a strange intensity; even the drapery quivers with emotion and vibrates with light. There may be more mundane reasons for the wan, otherworldly look of El Greco's people: he worked in light and shade before adding layers of color that don't always overcome the underlying gray tones, and he painted from wax models rather than directly from the figure. On his death in 1614, 50 models were found among his effects. Despite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Becoming El Greco | 2/9/2004 | See Source »

...never actually entered Emerson 105,” said Hui Hua “Ada” Wan ’07, who tried to attend Science B-62, “The Human Mind” yesterday afternoon. “I just stood outside and was mobbed by equally anxious students...

Author: By Joshua D. Gottlieb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Popular Classes Overflow Rooms | 2/6/2004 | See Source »

...Chinese have long looked to the skies--at least since Wan Hu, a 16th century official, lashed 47 gunpowder rockets to a chair with kites attached to it, ignited the rockets and vanished in a plume of smoke, never to be heard from again. With technology having improved significantly since then, the Chinese are on the verge of sending a Long March 2F rocket hurtling into space from a secret launch facility near the Gobi Desert. The payload: Shenzhou (divine vessel), a capsule carrying China's first astronaut. The mission: enter a low Earth orbit, circle the globe 14 times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Leap Skyward | 10/20/2003 | See Source »

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