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When describing Kirby, few fail to mention that he is, above all, an academic...
...here at Harvard, there are more varsity sports than at any other school—41 of them. I can’t walk 10 yards here without bumping into an athlete, though this is because I often fail to watch where I’m going. I’m not going to lie and say that I actually enjoyed reading and writing about all 41. But I will say that I think the glut of sports fans here who came in here thinking only some subset of football, men’s hockey and men?...
...that bows to them—do Harvard sports a disservice. I might root negatively for personal pleasure, but I tend to write because it illustrates one of the best, and underappreciated, aspects of Harvard sports. On a campus filled with successful people, Harvard athletes are not afraid to fail occasionally...
...orchestra concerts they put on are little more than glorified talent shows. We know they’re good, but few know when (or if) they make a mistake. And when they do, hundreds of people don’t groan in disappointment, and those rooting for them to fail don’t cheer with glee...
...Perhaps one of the few things the "roadmap" has going for it is that in the Mideast region, expectations of success are almost uniformly low. The Arabs are expecting Sharon to refuse to move against the settlers, while the Israelis are expecting Abbas to fail in his efforts to stop terrorism. Left to navigate the road map without outside supervision, the Israelis and Palestinians would unlikely stay the course for more than a couple of weeks - the reason they're talking now is that the Bush administration is micromanaging the process. And the extent of real political differences and deep...