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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Crimson also added another name to the record books during the Columbia game, as junior offensive standout Andre Akpan broke the Harvard records for both career points and assists in Saturday’s contest. Akpan surpassed the previous standard set by Chris Ohiri ’64, who lends his name to the Crimson’s home field. With more than a year remaining in his time on the team, Akpan is also sure to further raise the bar for future Harvard soccer prodigies...

Author: By Alexandra J. Mihalek, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Seeks To Land Ivy Title | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

...America. It was Chris’ first talk show appearance. Andy Bumatai, a Honolulu comedian, had heard about the local kid with Oval Office dreams and invited him for a chat. With the cameras rolling, the 17-year-old settled into an armchair next to Bumatai. “Chris, I want to ask you,” Bumatai said, leaning forward, “if you could have, by some hook or crook, run this year, would you?” Chris didn’t hesitate. “I would have loved...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett | Title: Kids Who Would Be King | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

...Very tall, chiseled face, you know, with a lot of gravitas.” “I think people used to look at themselves in the mirror and think, ‘I look presidential.’” I had called Dershowitz to ask about Chris, who had gotten into Harvard, sure enough, and then managed to land a spot in Dershowitz’s highly selective freshman seminar on law and morality. It hadn’t been hard to find Chris; he had a YouTube clip of his talk show interview on his Facebook...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett | Title: Kids Who Would Be King | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

...same week I interviewed Chris, I sat down with Hunter S. Gaylor, a freshman at the Harvard Extension School, who wore tasseled loafers and talked fiscal policy. “I may be a maverick,” he told me at one point. These were 18-year-olds who were ready to become the leaders of the free world. I felt dizzy. I asked Chris and Hunter if they had met anyone at Harvard who seemed more competent than them to be president—someone who made them feel inadequate. No, they told me. They hadn?...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett | Title: Kids Who Would Be King | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

...meets twice a week in Harvard Hall, and the students who take it project an air of fresh-scrubbed optimism nowhere to be found in classes on, say, social theory. The guys all seem to have crew-cuts, the girls shoulder-length hair and headbands. Chris Ballesteros perches on one of windowsills and takes notes on his laptop. In order to make it to the White House, I asked Porter, do you have to be more or less a charming egomaniac? Porter sent me back a politely worded rebuke. Ambition was not the relevant quality. “None...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett | Title: Kids Who Would Be King | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

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