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Students know Sorrento to be an avid sportsfan. He regularly accompanies Crimson editors toRed Sox games each spring...

Author: By Barbara E. Martinez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Full-Time Employees Give 14 Plympton a Sense of Continuity, History | 1/24/1998 | See Source »

...year hasn't produced any new "must-have" computer games for the kid at heart on your list, but few new titles may hold the interest of avid gamers. Id Software released the long-anticipated Quake 2 last month, providing hours of mindless, violent, inhumane ecstasy...

Author: By Kevin S. Davis, | Title: Gift Ideas For the Holidays | 12/9/1997 | See Source »

Bonded by the tragedy, Keith and Debbie Morehouse were married in 1985. They have a 6-year-old son, Lake, who is already an avid Thundering Herd fan. "He's got a football autographed by coach Pruett," says Keith, "and one of those big foam No. 1 hands. Debbie also decorated his room in green-and-white wallpaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BONUS STORY: A TRIUMPH OF WILL | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

Harvard's football team is off to a 5-1 start (3-0 in the Ivy League) and as avid sports fans, we can't help but be somewhat surprised. Sure, the alumni were starting to get restless as Coach Tim Murphy posted losing seasons in each of his first three years on the job. And yes, the team has returned its entire starting defense from the 1996 season...

Author: By Dan S. Aibel, | Title: FOOTBALL FANS, START TRAINING | 10/30/1997 | See Source »

...Tibetan Buddhism wants to meet this "yellowhead" who can shed light on a world that is to him only a picture-book fantasy. "For example, where is Paris, France? And what is a Molotov cocktail? And who is Jack the Ripper?" The Dalai Lama becomes the most avid student of a man who never knew he was a teacher. And Heinrich, who has been renounced by the son he never met, sees in the Dalai Lama a boy so beautiful and curious he could be any wandering father's perfect child. But it is now 1949, and the Chinese communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZEN AND THE ART OF MOVIEMAKING | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

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