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...when the Lions tried to take back seats, the Crimson was poised to counter, and did, extending its margin of victory back to open water...
...wife used to tell me that my life was boring because I never drink and I never smoke,” Chen says, as he wraps his fingers on the cream colored counter. “I think my life is colorful, and I think of this store as my classroom. I want to show the students my thanks...
...moves out from behind the counter for a moment to point to the large collection of paper money from various countries that is taped to the off-white bulletin board behind his counter. He says he began collecting the money after his store burned down in 1993 when his first customer after the fire gave him an extra dollar bill to wish him good luck...
...first, I was simply embarrassed for my hopelessly uncool race, as the doughy administrative duo had actually succeeded in making the usually square Director of the Harvard Foundation S. Allen Counter look like John Shaft. But then I had another thought: the fact that these two men, hopelessly disheveled as they were, had ascended to the leadership of Harvard College and Harvard University was a wonderful testament to the genuine meritocracy of this place. These two men, the grandchildren of immigrants, had risen to the top of the greasy pole without the benefit of grace or style, but merely...
Eventually, he earned an appointment to NYRA, and he found himself on the other side of the counter. The lifelong customer of horse racing now helped to run the industry as vice president of communications and development...