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Perhaps the biggest surprise for the Crimson, though, is the improvement of sophomore Asher Hochberg. Hochberg spent most of last season toiling near the bottom of Harvard’s lineup, but begins this year as the Crimson’s No. 3, having responded well to a reduced training regimen intended to protect him from the fatigue that plagued him last season...
...could stay home with their daughter Ella, 4, and the couple could afford to send Ella to a $7,000-a-year private preschool, have regular dates at nice restaurants and take advantage of the booming market by investing in mutual funds. But by the time their son Asher was born in February 2001, the economy was running out of steam, most of Michael's clients were running away, and the family's investments were tanking...
DIED. CHAIM POTOK, 73, best-selling author of The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev, whose crystalline prose gave mainstream audiences a nuanced glimpse into the rarely seen world of religious Jews; of brain cancer; in Merion, Pa. Potok's novels repeatedly addressed the struggle between religious devotion and love for the secular world, a tension he experienced as the son of Orthodox Polish immigrants who deemed his work frivolous. Inspired by the writing of Evelyn Waugh and James Joyce, whom he read on the sly as a teenager, Potok, unlike religious skeptics Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, lovingly...
...DIED. CHAIM POTOK, 73, scholar, ordained rabbi and best selling novelist whose books described conflicts between fathers and sons and tradition and change; in Merion, Pennsylvania. In such novels as The Chosen and My Name is Asher Lev, Potok (born Herman Harold Potok) gave an insider's view of Orthodox Jewish life in the U.S. and described his own struggle between secularism and orthodoxy. But his books found a universal readership and Potok referred to himself as 'an American writer writing about a small and particular American world.' DIED. MILDRED 'MILLIE' DEEGAN, 82, star of women's professional baseball...
Patterson was one of four Harvard players who reversed his loss in last week’s Ivy League match to secure the third place finish. Junior Thomas Storch, sophomore Ziggy Whitman and freshman Asher Hochberg also avenged individual losses to Yale four days earlier...