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...next hurdle to surmount after AI consideration is what Harvard calls the “broken leg test.” It means exactly what it sounds like—how would a recruit take advantage of Harvard’s other opportunities if she were to break her leg. “Will this person be good in a seminar, with a professor, in a dining hall?” asks Fitzsimmons. “Will this person grow? We don’t sign people to contracts to play field hockey.” To find...
...crossed under the interstate and steered my bicycle through the cold streets of South Boston last week for the first time in a year. Passing by broken beer bottles, I remembered the last time I swung under that bridge, cycling through the shattered remains of somebody’s Corona Extra. At the time I was concerned about a flat tire, which came about soon enough, but the discarded Corona confronted me with a problem larger than the glass shards my tires repelled...
...claim neighborhood allegiance, it all feels somehow inauthentic. I know it’s over because of the kids without accents and the BMWs on East Sixth St. but was reminded of it when I rode under the interstate at West Fourth and over a broken bottle of Corona Extra, not the first one that I’d seen in the gutters and alleys around the neighborhood...
...though regular bar patrons have long gotten used to the idea of St. Pauli Girl in Los Angeles and Foster’s in Minneapolis, there is a part of me that would rather fend off flat tires on West Fourth from broken pieces of Boston’s own Sam Adams, not Corona. There is a part of me that still wants to feel something distinctive about the town that I’m walking through. I want to know that it is unique, it is different, and it is not Anytown...
Last spring he suffered through the lacrosse season with two bulging discs in his back, and he is currently playing through the soccer season with a broken toe. However, none of this affects him come game time...