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Most people think of a cross-country race as a difficult and painful business, but it takes a really awful meet to bother Peter Johnson, the only four-year harrier at Harvard...
...House members and their guests. Not that the College wanted to discourage campus-wide camaraderie: It was just that if all undergraduates could show up and drink, the master's tenuous legal status as a surrogate parent for his House members would lose its validity. That approach didn't bother students much; so many masters exercised a salutary and complete neglect of the codes to make interhouse booze bashes almost weekly occurrences...
...then--at a college and in a country where losers are shunned as quickly as winners are glorified--should we even bother to shed a tear for the haplass booters...
...criticisms of each other. When the workers went to the polls, Harvard prevailed again, 390-328--a significantly lighter turnout than in 1977. "The low turnout hurt us," Rondeau said the night of the defeat. "I think many people expected us to win so easily that they didn't bother to vote...
...shifted my 200 Ibs. slightly, lazily set fire to a finger, and watched it burn down." He combats a compulsion for the bottle, wrangles with Alfred Hitchcock over the script of Strangers on a Train ("If you wanted something written in skim milk, why on earth did you bother to come to me?"), watches Cissy die by agonizing degrees, attempts suicide, and each time revives to go a few more rounds with a new book. In between he analyzes, complains and rejoices on stationery. "I don't know why the hell I write so many let ters," he reflects...