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...National Collegiate Athletic Association traces its roots all the way back to that spring day when Old Joe became the land's best college tennis player. But if the Crimson can boast about the first crown, it can't brag about many since...

Author: By Y. TAREK Farouki, | Title: Harvard Sports And NCAA Championships | 9/17/1993 | See Source »

...National Collegiate Athletic Association traces its roots all the way back to that spring day when Old Joe became the land's best college tennis player. But if the Crimson can boast about the first crown, it can't brag about many since...

Author: By Y. TAREK Farouki, | Title: Harvard Sports And NCAA Championships | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

...elite (or more accurate, those who consider themselves a part of the elite), the pleasure of watching TV is a guilty one. Anyone who has talked about TV with Harvard students well knows that "I hardly watch any TV--just the news" is a common boast. To admit that watching TV is sometimes more fun than reading a book is a heretical apostasy--the entertainment of TV is steeped...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: The Evil of Violence Hypocrites | 8/10/1993 | See Source »

...least "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" could boast Morgan Freeman and Christian Slater, even though it had Kevin Costner's Southern Californian Robin Hood. I am willing to grant that Elwes's Robin Hood has a British accent, though...

Author: By Young IL Kim, | Title: These Tights Don't Fit | 8/6/1993 | See Source »

...investment is not really the issue, despite Meyer and Co.'s continued purchase of shares in Marriott even after the company announced in March that no further dividends would be paid. The stinging embarrassment for Harvard, one of the few institutions of higher learning that has the resources to boast an endowment management corporation, is that its financial performance is not even competitive with the average national university's endowment portfolio...

Author: By Hugh G. Eakin, | Title: The Count Goes Full On the HMC | 7/20/1993 | See Source »

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