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Sporting the top ECAC slot and a No. 14 national ranking to boot, Harvard needs to snag an upset non-conference victory over No. 5 University of New Hampshire tonight if they want to maintain some semblance of clout in the league...
...year career as "the Toe"; of an apparent heart attack; in Middleburgh Heights, Ohio. Groza played during an era in which the Browns dominated. His most memorable field goal, performed in black high-top shoes and with a straight-on kicking style rarely used today, was a 16-yd. boot with seconds left, to win the 1950 championship over the L.A. Rams. College football's top kicker each year takes home the Lou Groza Award...
...Even in an age humming with electronic innovation, the new takes its baby steps in the boot prints of the old. Many of the cyber-knickknacks on our Tech 10 Best are binary clones of old friends. PayPal is the next Western Union; the Nikon Coolpix 900 is the spawn of the Brownie. Nike will customize your sneakers, just the way your "artistic" aunt did for your eighth birthday. And Napster: free access to worlds of music! It used to be called radio...
...into elite grammar schools "with lower admission rates than Harvard" and being booked themselves solid with exotic hobbies and activities in order to wow admissions officers. The paper goes on to forecast a generation of thirty- and forthysomethings "who are dazed survivors of some bewildering life-long boot-camp who...say they missed their youth entirely...
This scary scenario thus painted, the paper also offers a way out, offering alternatives to life in the boot-camp trenches, including spending more "down-time" in early childhood, eschewing educational vacations for "old-fashioned summer jobs," and not choosing a college "simply based on brand name or reputation." But the surest road to relaxation, it says, is to take a year off before college. It may also be a good path to admission, and will surely be interpreted that way by educators, parents and kids who are doubtless already reading between the document's lines to divine parcels...