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...Shawn Haviland. If it weren’t for Wilson—or if the All-Ivy votes were taken after the Ivy Championship Series—Haviland may have been the league’s selection as top rookie.The baby-faced blond from Farmington, Conn. finished the year atop the league in wins (7) and opponents batting average (.217), and was third in ERA (2.85). Most encouragingly, he was best at season’s end, tossing seven innings of two-hit baseball in an ICS-clinching 4-2 win over Cornell...
Wilson ultimately managed to make his way into the visitors’ dugout 30 minutes after the game began, immediately taking over at the hot corner. And it would be Wilson, fittingly, who would stand atop the hill to record the last out of the decisive, division-clinching...
...Harvard lightweights emerged from the Mass. Ave. Bridge at the halfway point, and as a crowd of Crimson-clad supporters shouted encouragement from atop the bridge, Harvard took out all of that initial nervous tension on the Midshipmen...
...prefer the Yard where one night freshman year some friends and I began a makeshift Primal Scream, half-naked, more drunk on life than on someone’s moonshine, gleefully befriending everyone we traipsed past; the one where earlier this year I and others made fruit juice atop a wooden press that my friend had constructed beneath the oak trees; the Yard where one night this year a dance party paraded, fueled by hundreds of portable radios; or the Yard through which a ragtag bunch marched with a bizarre, colorful, 10-foot fabric cube in the first snowfall...
...course, you don't need a portfolio of condos to have made a pile. Average homeowners who bought in the '90s--not to mention those who have owned for decades--are now, like modern-day Clampetts, sitting atop newly discovered gushers of wealth. Many have borrowed against their fat cushions of equity. Some--like bettors taking chips off a blackjack table--have sold, trading down to smaller places or swapping a city apartment for a calmer, cheaper life in the country. Still others have stayed put and splurged. Lucky Erganian and her husband, now deceased, bought their Woodland Hills, Calif...