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Former Harvard tennis star James Blake '01 won two singles matches as the United States defeated India in a Davis Cup qualifying match. Blake was the first Crimson athlete to compete in the international tennis competition since 1926. He won matches over Leander Paes and Harsh Mankaid to secure the 4-1 win. The U.S. had to play the qualifying match after losing to Switzerland in the first round of last year's championship. With the win, the team advances to the 2002 World Group.

He lost his teeth, not his brain

Former Princeton hockey player A. Michael Spence '66, a professor emeritus at Stanford University, recently won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his study of asymmetric information. A member of the hockey team from 1962-66, Spence graduated summa cum laude and earned recognition as a Rhodes Scholar. Spence shared the honor with George Akerlof of Yale and Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia, his longtime research partners.

—Compiled by Kenneth Hammond

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