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...squash team was positioned to claim its seventh straight Ivy League championship title when it lost to Princeton. Squash and tennis are also Princeton and Yale sports, if we work from the theory of the leisure class. Harvard's coaches deserve credit for recruiting and training an impressive crop of players. But that credit only extends so far: our peers come from elite private schools scattered across three continents...
...beyond this exclusive group of leather jacket-wearing, cell phone-toting, Mercedes-driving mafiosos. Though there are still many Russians who cannot afford these goods, many Russians besides mafiosos are joining the consumer class. The term Noviye Russkie, or New Russian, which used to apply only to the small crop of crooked Russian multi-millionaires, is becoming harder to define. Soon it may refer to a large comfortable middle class of Russians who enjoy the prosperity of consumerism. Such a middle class, though growing, does not yet exist. Since the fall of communism, the latent class divisions of the Soviet...
Gray delved into the actual process of writing in a way that few writers do. His assertion that William Faulkner's "prose rhythms" crop up in Morrison's writing, however, left me wondering. Morrison won the Nobel. Do we still have to think she needs a role model? JACINDA TOWNSEND New York City...
This view is naive, simplistic and wrong. It is important to note that the pre-PUCC, "golden era" of the council that the most recent crop of candidates pined for was long gone before any of them had even applied to Harvard. The council, I can recall from my days of covering it three years ago, was far more of a forum for blatant partisan politics before PUCC than after; the council chambers were a snake pit of backstabbing quasi-politicos walking around in suits and trying to look important while they planned one miserably failing social event after another...
...there was any question before, there can be no more doubt as to who is the cream of the crop in the Ivies. Harvard has won 29 consecutive Ancient Eight contests, and Feaster is now the league's all-time scoring leader...