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This year, however, hasn't been as bad for the University as some people suppose. Harvard's math team, chess team, bridge team and on-topic debate team placed first in the country against formidable opposition. Put bluntly, we kicked some intellectual butt...
Admittedly, such endeavors are not exactly spectator sports. "The Wave" is not allowed during debate rounds, and anyone caught yelling "Sieve!" would be ejected from the site of a chess or math competition. It is hard to picture a well-attended rally in front of Widener in honor of the bridge team, even if it did receive the full backing of the Society of Nerds and Geeks...
Regardless, the victories of the chess, math, debate and bridge teams say something about Harvard that cannot be captured by a "Harvard Hockey, National Champs" shirt. Whether we are embarassed to admit it, we refuse to admit it or we admit it way too often, Harvard attracts the best students in the country--US News and World Report's annual blathering notwithstanding...
...national flag at Sajudis meetings. In the grand tradition of the Landsbergis family, the boy, he said, "feels himself a fighter for Lithuania." As Landsbergis matches Mikhail Gorbachev wit for wit, Sajudis colleagues watch the man they affectionately call "maestro" with admiration and fascination. "He is a superb chess player," says Jurate Gustaite, a teacher at the Conservatory. "I have been reminded of that a lot lately as I watch him maneuver so deftly, always thinking several steps ahead...
...comfortable as possible, occasionally putting out its antennae to find out what life is like. But in our shells we always had time for others. People in our circle of friends became a little like Slavs, who in their long winters seem to have plenty of time to play chess, chat or discuss their religion. I hope these habits do not wane...