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...zone and to the stairwell leading into the Harvard student section—and immortality—when disaster struck. Handsome Dan’s legs were too short to climb the steps, and, at 70 snarling, drooling, squirming pounds, he was far too heavy to carry. The dream was dead...
...government department. When the doors to The Crimson closed, I was finally able to return to the tutoring program I’d been forced to leave behind. And when Handsome Dan slipped away, well, it didn’t take very long to find a new dream...
...talent for boxing earned him two French amateur titles and selection to represent France in the 1996 Summer Games. But an auto accident in early 1995 shattered his left knee; Koné required 12 operations and five years of rehabilitation. The injury ended Koné's Olympic and career dreams. But it set the stage for what would later become Airness - whose panther logo was drawn from Koné's nickname from the days before he was forced out of the boxing ring and into a wheelchair. "The long, forced immobility made me observe things in a way I hadn...
...he’s a guy who has never hidden the fact that he has a great affinity for Harvard hockey and Harvard hockey players.”Cleary, known for being an Olympian purist, was said to have been dismayed by the rise of Olympic “dream teams” feeling instead that the Olympics ought to belong to amateurs. Donato also describes him as a purist in terms of ice hockey.“He tried to play the game from a pure standpoint, not as an act of thuggery but a show of skill...
...every student’s work to the rest of the class without saying who had written it. A VOICE OF HER OWNIn the decade after graduating from Radcliffe, Valentine married and stayed home to raise her two daughters. In 1965, she published her first book, “Dream Barker,” which received the Yale Younger Poets Prize, an award given to the most promising young American poet.Valentine says works by Elizabeth Bishop and “confessional poets” such as Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath influenced her early writings. But after her first collection...