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...Poles share his enthusiasm. Pollsters say that the October election marked the sharpest divide yet between Poland's rural and urban electorate. While the Civic Platform drew most of its support from what pollsters now refer to as Poland A - urban, educated, younger voters - the rural, older, more devout voters who make up Poland B favored Jaroslaw Kaczynski's Law and Justice Party (PIS) and other parties. In crude terms, the first group includes the winners of Poland's economic transition; the second group, the losers...
...athletic program has taken many by surprise. Following weighted encouragement from the powers-that-be, also known as the Athletic Department, many JV sports this year have made the switch to the less-regulated club status.This JV-to-club push has been met by a mix of annoyance and enthusiasm from student athletes. Though teams are not being required to make the transition to club status, many have felt pressure to do so. Nadia O. Gaber ’09-’10, a member of Women’s JV Soccer, says that...
...Academic All-Ivy League honoree. She played all 17 games for Harvard in 2007, tallying a goal and an assist, and proved a stalwart defender as the team recorded a 10-6-1 record.On the basis of these individual and collective successes, it was no surprise Nichols’ enthusiasm resonated over the phone, in anticipation of a memorable training session with the national team.“The weather here is unbelievable,” she exclaims. “The opportunity to play with this level of players, and the training and coaching staff we have here...
...season of our national pastime begins this month, Harvard students would do well to remember that baseball-team allegiances cannot be so credibly and honorably fabricated as, say, their recent enthusiasm for Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy. These loyalties spring from years of careful attention, affection, and devotion, season after season of heartbreak alternating, regularly but unpredictably, with triumph. These are bonds formed not only over the course of a lifetime, but inherited intact from generations that have gone before...
...This requisite patience in turn counsels against the fair-weather fandom that dominates the Harvard campus annually around October—that is, if the Red Sox have had a successful season. Well-intentioned and clueless Red Sox fans on campus perhaps can be forgiven for their feigned enthusiasm, for their understandable desire to imbibe the rich froth of Boston sports culture, for their all-too-human urge...