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...promised O’Brien that in five years he’d be hosting The Tonight Show. O’Brien indeed ascended to the post in 2009, but after seven months NBC gave the show back to Jay Leno when O’Brien declined to accept a later time slot, a move he felt would have betrayed the show’s integrity...
...years before, he had guided Notre Dame to the 10th seed in the NCAA tournament in his second season there. When Clark left for the Crimson, he took a slight step back in his first season, leading Harvard to the second round of the NCAA tournament. But for the Crimson, the season represented a step up, as the team had only made it to the first round the year before...
...looking back on it, it was fortunate that it all worked out. I personally feel that it was a great blessing,” she said. “It made it work out for our marriage. I feel it was kind of providence guiding my path...
...Women were marginal, seriously marginal,” Metz said. “We were not allowed to step inside Lamont Library because we were thought to distract the men from their studies. That meant that you had to go back to Radcliffe dorms after class, and then you had to go to the Radcliffe library if you wanted to study. You were really separated from...
...guilty of watching male sports more often than female sports too. Every March Madness, I find myself completing the men’s bracket while just acknowledging the front-runners of the women’s pool. But as a graduating female athlete at Harvard, I look back on my four years and am dumbfounded as to why this phenomenon occurs on both a professional and collegiate level...