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Boxing is not purely an individual accomplishment for Liu. She is also involved with promotion of the whole sport. When newcomers begin boxing, she takes time to offer her advice and teach them the basics. Motivated by Liu, Woden Teachout, a graduate student in Eliot House, started boxing...
...Division II skiers in the East and the top women's relay team, and with everyone returning next year, Harvard looks to stomp all over the competition. The Crimson also is expected to enjoy the luxury of having last year's Division II women's champion, Woden Teachout--who took the year off to ski in Sweden--and two outstanding members in the Class of '94 on next year's team...
Harvard placed in the top five in all long distance events. Woden Teachout and Merrill McKenzie swept the 10,000 meters, finishing first and second, respectively. Sarah Wilcox placed second in the five kilometer run. Romney Resney was runner-up in the 3000 meters with a time of 10:01.2 and Tina Lount took fifth in the 1500 meters...
...METAPHOR which Gardner places like a frame around his book acts in this way. On the first page he tells a story from Norse myth: Thor, Woden and the gods must fight off the trolls, the forces of chaos, but the only weapon remaining to them is Thor's hammer. For us, Gardner says, that hammer is art. Writers must take it up and strike, before the Gotterdammerung. The tale acts as a light, disarming way to begin a book with such a solemn title. But from the first pages forward Gardner relies on the logical force of this tale...
...Borges, human life is pathetically ephemeral and yet immortal, because each individual bears witness to a precise set of perceptions that cannot be duplicated. When the last unknown Saxon died, writes Borges, there died with him the "face of Woden, the old dread and exultation, the rude wooden idol weighed down with Roman coins and heavy vestments, the sacrifice of horses, dogs, and prisoners...