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...trip down the ever-dangerous Muller Hill Road, but professional journalists generally have much more trying lives than student-journalists do.But it is indeed that closeness of access and the connection to our subjects that creates the discomfort we must deal with. When we step into the press box, we must shed our Harvard gear and adopt a stance of neutrality. It doesn’t matter if the volleyball team just clinched the Ivy League, if the hockey team just forced overtime in the Beanpot championship game, or if Clifton Dawson just broke the record for rushing yards...
...have the chance to have a one-on-one interview with a former Duke basketball player.Heck, I never thought I’d be a sportswriter—period.In retrospect, I guess it shouldn’t have come as a total surprise. I was that kid analyzing the box score after a Lakers game, keeping score during an Angels game, and compiling stat sheets for my high school volleyball team.Writing about it came fairly easily—I’d only read about 10,000 sports stories in the morning papers growing up.In my sophomore year, when...
...doors from Saudi Arabia and a large gold gong from Malaysia, is a small glass cabinet containing Washington's gifts: four bowls - two silver, two porcelain - bearing the White House insignia, given at various times by Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Energy Secretary Samuel Bordman. Another display shows a box of 12 autographed golf balls given to Nazarbayev by Clinton...
...trick-or-treating. P. T. A. task forces patrolled neighborhood stores to watch for product contaminations. Local hospitals offered to X-ray the loot. In the end, there were widely reported incidents of pin-laden chocolate and strange tasting fruit. A packet of hypodermics was found in a box of cereal in Danbury, Conn., and a Long Island man was injured when he bit into a candy bar containing a straight pin. At least 22 pieces of “Trick” candy appeared around New York City: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Cadbury Chocolates, apples...
...rise in gasoline prices has caused widespread public anger, as every member of Congress who went home for the Memorial Day break is no doubt aware. Support for lowering energy prices is something that has both broad and deep support in America; it will drive voters to the ballot box. And although Warner-Lieberman, or any future cap-and-trade bill, is unlikely to hike the price of gasoline, it will surely be used as a convenient political scapegoat...