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Harvard Notes: Giardi became the second player in the program's history to win two different post-season awards. Giardi--last year's Crocker Trophy recipient--received the Robert F. Kennedy Award, given to that player who demonstrates "his willingness to work, has made himself a valuable member of the team, and has thereby gained the respect and admiration of his teammates and coaches"..."I'm surprised," Giardi said, thanking his teammates for the honor...Senior Marc Hourihan won the William Paine LaCroix Trophy for enthusiasm and sportsmanship. "I'm real honored," the offensive lineman said...Seniors Nick DeAngelis...
...Pony Crocker (Morgan K. Nichols) is an untalented singer born to strict Mormons. He writes original songs, all of them about Jesus, and comes to New York after singing an amusingly disastrous proselytizing song in an elementary school. The final character, Hank Knox (Francis Henry), is the son of wealthy, influential parents. Hank is as emotionally secure as Priscilla is not. He is kind-hearted but confident to the point of overbearing arrogance...
Friends of Hillary Clinton would have you believe she is an amalgam of Betty Crocker, Mother Teresa and Oliver Wendell Holmes. She gets up before dawn, even on weekends, and before her first cup of coffee discusses educational reform. She then hops into her fuel-efficient car with her perfectly behaved daughter for a day of good works...
...style of Liberia's late President Samuel Doe, Siad Barre, a onetime policeman who seized power in a military coup in 1969, sealed his own fate by depending more and more on his kinsmen and overreacting to any challenge to his autocratic rule. Former U.S. diplomat Chester Crocker, a professor at Georgetown University, calls Siad Barre an "old-style, feudal, tribal chieftain." The country is ethnically homogeneous -- 98.8% are Somalis -- so there are no significant tribal hatreds. But its 8 million people are split into rival clans that have been battling one another for centuries...
...seize the American installations. And this was the heyday of Jeane Kirkpatrick's theory that traditional dictatorships of the Third World were more amenable to democratization than totalitarian regimes of the left. Washington endorsed Doe's election. "To withdraw support for Liberia's economic development," explained Chester Crocker, then Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, "would sacrifice the tentative steps taken toward representative government...