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...facts of the case that aren't in dispute should temper any suggestion that Elin is truly pleased with his situation. He survived, barely, a harrowing ordeal en route from Cuba to Florida. His mother died, likely in front of his eyes. Days later, he became enmeshed in an international controversy over his fate. His American family, which purports to have his best interests at heart, quickly lost the moral high ground. Elin was paraded before Miami television cameras on a daily basis. Invited by the family, the cameras followed the boy to school, to Universal Studios, on shopping outings...
...these were not any 2,035 fans. These were 2,035 rabid, The-Game-like fans who turned out en masse to Lavietes Pavilion. And this was on the same night that 2,801 fans were in Bright Hockey Center for Harvard's 3-2 win over Yale. For those playing at home, that's almost 5,000 people across the Charles at one time for non-football athletic events...
...Crimson bageled three teams (5-0) en route to the finals, defeating Williams on Friday, and Yale and an Atlanta-based club team on Saturday. The sole loss of the tournament came in the finals from the team's No. 2 player, junior Gray Witcher...
While the men's team (2-0) just barely sneaked past Northeastern, 74-69, the women's team (2-0) had relatively little trouble placing first in all but one of the events en route to a 96-26 trouncing of the Huskies...
...lives for some unstructured pursuits. At MIT, for example, students regularly apply their engineering savvy toward benign, anonymous pranks. Recognizing these "hacks" as a valuable creative outlet, the administration often looks the other way, tacitly encouraging the practice. At Princeton and Cornell, it is common for students to flood en masse into the streets on weekends, simply to congregate and engage in spontaneous activity. In contrast, a professor who lives on Harvard's Faculty Row bemoaned the lack of such spontaneity, telling me that an outsider would never guess that more than a thousand college students lived near the Quad...