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...point during the final round. Rhoads is a full-time teacher of the game, not just a college coach, and was recognized for his outstanding work by being named 2008 New England PGA Teacher of the Year. That award runs in the family—Rhoads’ father, Rick, won the award twice in California. “He spends countless hours with us,” captain Jessica Hazlett said. “For him, it’s like having 10 kids. He makes sure we’re doing well on and off the course...
Months before I set foot in Holworthy 07, my father gave me an important piece of advice.Don’t choose a college based solely on its sports teams, he told me—a seemingly ridiculous suggestion given the magnanimity of my decision.But my dad had ample reason to be skeptical. Tucked away with information about Harvard were pamphlets from Duke, Stanford, Michigan, Wisconsin, Virginia, and Oklahoma, the other schools to which I sent applications. His daughter, who had filled out March Madness brackets long before she knew how to spell “Mississippi?...
...view of the festivities as the Red Sox won their first World Series in 86 years and pandemonium reigned in the Yard. Two years after that I became a member of the first Harvard College class since that of 1919 to witness multiple Red Sox championship teams. As my father put it when I called home in 2004 to seek consolation, “86 years, and it only took you two months!”All kidding aside, I could go on and on about my objections to the widespread Sox bandwagoning by Harvard students, which at times seemed...
...Agency (IAEA), arrested engineer Friedrich Tinner and his sons Marco and Urs on the suspicion of helping to supply gas centrifuge parts for use in Libya's now abandoned nuclear weapons program. They allegedly acted between 2001 and 2003 through the trafficking ring operated by Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan's atom bomb. Khan, under house arrest in Pakistan, last week claimed he'd been coerced into his 2004 confession to helping Libya, North Korea and Iran with nuclear weapons...
...grade, I used to ride the subway to school every day. Sometimes I would be scared—there were some pretty unpleasant-looking people on the uptown IRT. “You can’t go through life being scared of the subway,” my father would tell me. “You can’t live in a city and worry about crime all the time—it’s completely futile.” That’s the same attitude society in general has to take toward sporadic signs...