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...when it comes to hockey, luck is not what has made this year's men's hockey captain excel. And excel. And excel...
...close, almost symbiotic relationship between Wynton and Branford marked their childhood and continued into their young manhood. Wynton, extraordinarily disciplined and driven by an insatiable desire to excel, was a straight-A student who starred in Little League baseball, practiced his trumpet three hours a day and won every music competition he ever entered. Branford, older by 13 months, was an average student, a self-described "spaz" in sports and a naturally talented musician who hated to practice. Yet both brothers deny that there was any rivalry between them. "Our personalities were formed to each other," says Wynton...
...probe slays the popular notion--expounded by many and believed by few--that all Harvard athletes are just as academically fit as non-athletes. Any criticism of athletes' academic qualifications in the pages of the campus press inevitably invites a storm of criticism, which usually points to athletes who excel in the classroom as well as on the field. It's true, plenty such examples can be found at Harvard...
...could write with power and style, and he had enormous influence." Says Columbia law professor Vincent Blasi: "There have been great dissenters, such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, and great leaders of court majorities, such as John Marshall. But Brennan was the only Justice in the court's history to excel in both roles...
There he encountered what he remembers as "a quiet current of anti- Semitism" for the first time, another goad for him to excel. At New Trier high school, he began writing for the school newspaper and quickly determined that he had found his life's work -- one that promised glory at least equal to his father's, and on his own terms. "I told my parents," he says, "that I had abandoned their lifelong ambition for me to be a doctor. I was going to be a writer...