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What makes this moment so gut-wrenching is the larger context. It’s a championship game—in particular, a collegiate one, and that carries a lot of baggage. In any such event, the fate of the entire universe rests in the balance—or at the very least it seems like it. You get at most four chances to win a championship. Your teammates are often your best friends. Your team can be eliminated in just one day after months of preparation. The resulting passion and high stakes are why I cover college sports...
...them earn A’s); and they succeed in all kinds of postgraduate competitions, not to mention careers. Yet if we take the College for granted, we will quickly find it diminished, a secondary institution in the University that has grown around it. Such has been the fate of liberal arts colleges in most research universities. Such should not be the case with Harvard College, the mission of which—as the president will pronounce today—is to graduate educated women...
Just a week before graduation, fate (a.k.a FM) wouldn’t let Rudenstine part Harvard without scoping the skies. Harvard’s expert on galactic distances and movement, Doyle Professor of Cosmology John P. Huchra, graciously offered a few hours of his nighttime to show Rudenstine around the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astronomy, located at 60 Garden Street, just a few minutes walk past the Radcliffe Quad...
Well, no, I didn’t—I felt a sense of narrative significance in the quirks of fate that directed me back to Eliot H-44, but struggled to see its shape. I go to college 10 minutes from home and end up where my parents began. Does this mean I am fated to linger forever in the shadow of their memories? I had my first slice at ’Noch’s when my parents decided to take me to this pizza place they loved when they were in college. I used...
Specifically, Champion says the government upped MATEP’s price tag by changing its mind on the project’s fate so many times...