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...television, and they saw Fran Lynch, a substitute back, score two touchdowns for the Broncos at Shea Stadium. But they remembered little else of Lynch's professional career, other than that he did have a career, for nine years. He played as a backup to Floyd Little, the Broncos' all-star running back, and on special teams, and was one of those little-known players who make a career out of perseverance, luck, good health, a pliable nature and a modest talent. Fran Lynch's career on television was a series of moments after a kickoff and tackle, when...
This stuff is out there for the taking, as soon as the viewing public of the free world is willing to ask for it. And in return, we could send the Russkis some General Hospital and Phil Donahue. After all, what could be better than All-Star Wrestling to increase understanding between nations...
...obvious answer to that one -- provide better teaching -- is not always a priority at Harvard. As Shawn Rose, a senior from White Township, N.J., puts it, "All-star professors aren't necessarily all-star teachers." James Q. Wilson, for example, teaches a small section of his course on American politics but does so as if addressing the House of Lords. At a table of 15, he gazes over the heads of students, indulging the musty convention of calling them by their last names only. Yet Wilson is considered sprightly compared with peers like Economist James Duesenberry, dubbed the "Human Quaalude...
...Someone said to me that if you could attend all they symposia, it would be the equivalent to a Harvard education," Thomas W. Stephenson '37, the 350th coordinator, said earlier this summer. "[The symposia program] "will be a rich smorgasbord with an all-star class...
...record becomes all the more impressive when one realizes that the eight regulars have been having fairly average years. Since when does Jim Rice have fewer than a dozen homers a month after the All-Star break? Since when does Bill Buckner struggle to reach the .250 plateau? Since when does any team win with shortstops named Rey Quinones and Ed Romero...