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...National Championships. Twenty-five years later, Askew still marvels at what unlikely champions they were. “We were the upstarts from Harvard who really didn’t belong there,” Askew said. “It’s almost as if we stumbled into this thing. We didn’t quite realize how good we were until the final whistle blew and we were national champions.” —Staff writer Lingbo Li can be reached at lingboli@fas.harvard.edu—Staff writer Marianna N. Tishchenko can be reached...
...Washington’s a few hours away, but Harvard recently became a similar ground zero for this belief in The Total Answer. The unexpected shooting of a Salem State student on campus a few weeks ago had an almost cinematic quality: start with a shocking, utterly incomprehensible act of violence, loop back to the origins of the event. That gunshot, ripping open a balmy May afternoon, exposed a network of campus drug use, undergrads both buying and selling. Students and police are still trying to piece it together, to tie together the shards they’ve been left...
...Perhaps “pandering” to those who like effective government, he also intended to measure the effectiveness of U.S. ambassadors and embassies abroad. Bill Clinton would undoubtedly endorse this approach, since he said at Harvard in 2001 that “almost nobody in the Middle East knows” what the U.S. has done for the Muslims in Bosnia and Kosovo, that he would tell young people in Kandahar how many Muslims died in the World Trade Center, and that “we have done a lousy job of getting our story...
...weekend in October 1983, Leverett House threw a party that almost everyone agreed was totally lame. There were never more than 25 people in the room at a time, A. Brent Truitt ’84, then Leverett House Committee Chairman, told The Crimson at the time...
...over the next decade, the Massachusetts state legislature tried to raise the drinking age to 20, but failed when Gov. Dukakis twice vetoed bills brought to his desk. Almost immediately after Edward J. King replaced Dukakis as governor in 1979, advocates of the change succeeded and the drinking age was raised...