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...world-renowned pressure-cooker may not be so great after all. Every year New York seems to see another fine free agent acquisition’s career burn out, and Harvard faces the arrival of many a freshman for whom endless open houses and Annenberg ice cream are cold comfort in the face of a newfound anonymity amongst fellow lifelong standouts. Both departing Yankees great Alex Rodriguez and, by his own admission, UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 nearly cracked under such pressure upon first arriving. Only after these crises did each go on to distinguish himself...
...defensemen for their efforts. “They’re helping me out, I’m helping them out, so it’s a good trust between us right now,” Richter said. After an up-and-down rookie season, Richter’s comfort at the collegiate level has led him to success in his sophomore campaign. “Coming in [my] second year as a sophomore, it’s nice to know the system,” he said. “You know the league, you know the pace...
...they can really do.”Moretzsohn was just one important piece of last year’s Ivy League championship team. The team chemistry is what brought her to Harvard in the first place, and she credits the team’s turnaround last year to their comfort playing together.“It really helped having played with all those girls for a year, we all just kind of clicked, and it made for a really good season,” Moretzsohn says.Now, Moretzsohn and her teammates have turned their attention to the upcoming season. Though...
...Iranian friend tried to make the case that we would be better off with Tehran having a nuclear bomb than Pakistan's generals. Small comfort to Washington and Tel Aviv, but he was on to something...
...season, Harvard turned over a new leaf, and exploded in Ivy League competition. “Those kind of adjustments really came together at the end of the season,” senior co-captain Lindsay Hallion said. “We peaked in terms of being comfortable with each other and comfortable with the offense.” The comfort that the Crimson found proved to be impossible to stop. Harvard went 13-1 in Ivy League play, only sustaining one loss to Yale. Harvard’s solid play in the Ancient Eight earned...