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...taken my team, the women's club tennis team, on road trips to Yale and Tufts," Brook C. Wilkinson '01 writes in an e-mail message...
Everywhere you turned there was something brilliant happening. Texan Laura Wilkinson came from nowhere to win the platform diving on a broken foot. Chinese veteran Xiong Ni nailed his last dive to become the only man besides Greg Louganis to win back-to-back titles off the springboard. American volleyballers Dain Blanton and Eric Fonoimoana kicked sand in Brazil's face at Bondi Beach. The softball and baseball tournaments were more competitive than ever. The U.S. batswomen lost thrice before storming back to win the gold, while the batsmen did the unprecedented, beating Cuba 4-0 for the title. Finally...
...went back to the pool for some diving, and this Texan, Laura Wilkinson, came from way back to win the women's platform - on a broken foot! She broke it practicing six months ago and hasn't had surgery yet. She had to wear a special shoe just to climb the ladder. In the last dives, she was nearly perfect, and the Chinese and Canadians started doing belly flops and cannonballs. The crowd was moaning, the dives were so bad. Wilkinson won, and said the foot felt fine: "I'm so happy I don't feel a thing...
While it makes perfect sense to be the first person to sell in a rout, when everybody comes to that conclusion, everybody loses. The vampire-blood exchange, described by biologist Gerald Wilkinson in 1983, caught the attention of economists because it represents a natural occurrence of the optimal solution to a problem called "the Prisoner's Dilemma" that has bedeviled game theorists for decades...
Additionally, I want to take issue with the staff's presentation of jurisprudential issues. I agree with their criticism of the recent judicial activism of conservative justices, especially on issues of the ill-defined 11th Amendment guarantee of "sovereign immunity." The Fourth Circuit's own Chief Harvey Wilkinson, concurring in the case at hand, proudly declared the recent cases to be a new wave of "justified," federalism-based judicial activism...