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Growing up in Farmington, Conn., Harvard starting pitcher Shawn Haviland watched his favorite team, the New York Yankees, collect a handful of championships in the late ‘90s. Like any young fan, he idolized Derek Jeter, New York’s popular shortstop. So imagine Haviland’s attempt to play it cool when the Yankee captain approached him in the weight room of their training facility in Tampa, Fla., and introduced himself. “I just started laughing hysterically,” the senior righthander remembers. “I said...
That plan was ultimately vetoed by then-University President Derek C. Bok, but not before it incensed the liberal Democrats who controlled the Cambridge City Council...
...also right. In order to honor Orleans’s legacy, University President Drew G. Faust and the committee charged with finding his successor should choose a director who believes just as strongly in the unequivocal precedence of education over athletics. As Faust’s predecessor Derek C. Bok told the New York Times in 2006, when universities allow themselves to fall under the influence of big time athletics, “even responsible institutions end up doing things they don’t like doing.” To Bok, the Ivy League’s alleged marginalization...
...They say only nice things [about me], so at this point, whoever it is, I hope I don’t say the wrong thing around them,” said Derek M. Flanzraich ’10, a former member of the site’s “most wanted” list for being a “sex symbol.” “I think that anyone who takes it seriously is kidding themselves...
...audience’s attention as new characters bring even more personality to the show. Giuseppi T. Boppityboo (S. Adam Goldenberg ’08, who is also a Crimson editor) is a modern “fairy godfather” with a mafia connection, while villainess Mia Pharaoh (Derek S. Mueller ’10) explodes onto the stage in a full-length sequin dress and a presence that outshines the sparkles. Giuseppi’s entertaining number entitled “A Fairy Like Me,” in which he orchestrates a Cinderella makeover...