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...where sophomore standout Misha Goldfeder finished just 16th, while classmates Anna Podolsky and Arielle Pensler finished fifth and seventh, respectively. Tuesday the NCAA selection committee will decide which 24 fencers in each weapon make it into the Championship tournament March 13-16, with the final selections being released on Wednesday. As the decisions take both season record and regional performance into account, many of the day’s top performers have a legitimate shot at selection. —Staff writer Madeleine I. Shapiro can be reached at mshapiro@fas.harvard.edu...
...Consider their résumés: Christina Ricci, born Feb. 12, 1980, first noticed when she was 10 in Mermaids (as the sister of another child siren, Winona Ryder), then certifying her kid stardom a year later as Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family. Natalie Portman, born June 9, 1981, zoomed to stardom in Luc Besson's Leon, a.k.a. The Professional, when she was 12. Scarlett Johansson, born Nov. 22, 1984, a leading actress at 11 as Manny in Manny & Lo, then at 13 as the troubled girl redeemed by Robert Redford in The Horse Whisperer. All three girls...
...half-century, Buckley, who died Wednesday at the age of 82, was chief spokesman for the signal political phenomenon of late 20th century America: the rise of conservatism. The son of an oilman, he leveraged his wealth with energy, passion and cheerful relentlessness. He wrote books laying out the conservative worldview; launched a magazine, National Review, to nurture and promote it; and created one of the longest-running shows in public-television history, Firing Line, to broadcast his views to millions...
...residents of Thayer Hall reported that an unidentified male stole a laptop and a television from a room in Thayer on Wednesday night, according to an e-mail sent by the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD). The burglar entered the victim’s walk-through double through the room’s unlocked door at around 11:20 p.m., according to the victim’s roommate Haili E. Muse ’11. Muse said that the burglar then asked her for a person whose name she did not recognize. “I got really freaked...
...toll to avenge the deaths of what Israel claims were Iranian-trained senior instructors. The Islamist militia opened up its arsenal, hauling out medium-range Grad rockets which struck the port city of Ashkelon, while dozens of short-ranged Qassams peppered Sderot and other towns near Gaza on Wednesday, killing an Israeli student...