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...alien experience for me. At Harvard, students will sell their younger siblings to get exemptions from the QRR or Lit & Arts B--but not to waste an entire afternoon across the river. So few students attend the games--and so few who do attend cheer--that Harvard football is the only team in the country that needs confidence-building by professionals when the team wins...
After all, why should I cheer for some jock who probably can't even appreciate my organic chemistry test score and certainly won't be slapping me any high-fives...
Harvard students inexplicably drop their inhibitions at hockey games, sometimes even raising their voices to (dare I say) cheer. Would it be betrayal to support football as well...
...example, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett--still smarting over his housing compromise last year--might support a plan to assign students randomly to cheer for one sport each year. Or the Core committee could require students to cheer for teams in eight of 10 categories...
Murphy eventually made contact with someone who helped her join a convoy making a daring cross-desert escape to the Saudi border. A cheer went up when word reached the Washington Post newsroom last week that she was safe. Through the whole ordeal, the Massachusetts-born Murphy, 43, managed to keep her Yankee sense of thrift. When she telephoned the Post from Riyadh last week, an assistant tried to switch her to foreign editor David Ignatius. Murphy demurred. "This hotel is charging too much. Have David call me back...