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...It’s been a huge change,” says Casey, who had worn contact lenses since he was 11. “For me, it was something I had to deal with for so long, it’s just great not to have to worry about glasses or contacts anymore. It’s pretty liberating...
Last season, Matt Brunnig was fitted for contact lenses on the eve of the Crimson’s climactic doubleheader with the Big Green in Hanover. The lanky senior then went 6-for-13 in the final four games of his collegiate career, highlighted by a 400-foot drive to the depths of Dartmouth’s Red Rolfe Field’s cavernous center field...
...course, someone will chime in that I should have gone to a Swarthmore, Williams, or Wesleyan if I wanted that kind of professor contact. But that’s ludicrous, because as they always say, where else could I meet such interesting, brilliant people as here at Harvard—people who have impressively collected a dilettante’s knowledge of quantum physics and Wittgenstein, and who aren’t afraid to bore me with it over beers...
Only in small seminar discussions are students sufficiently intimidated by close contact with distinguished professors, who not only have a better mastery of the material but are also not afraid to tell students they’re wrong. So when the class megalomaniac says something obtuse like, “I think we should discuss the theological implications of the eschatological, and Stephen Dedalus is the devil,” the professor will respond, “No, I don’t think that’s relevant at all. In fact, I wish you would think more before...
...were warned when we got to Khost that there may be suicide bombers in town, so we took precautions. I wrapped a scarf tightly around my head to hide my blond hair, and thought about buying a pair of brown contact lenses next time I return to the U.S. Balazs Gardi, TIME's photographer, traded his polar fleece and khakis for a shalwar kameez, the loose tunic and baggy trousers worn by Afghan men. Suicide bombers here often seek targets of opportunity, so we didn't want to draw any attention to ourselves...