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...received a letter inviting him to try out for the Green Bay Packers (“He used that letter whenever he campaigned in Wisconsin,” Clymer, a former Crimson president, recalls in an interview). But as the story goes, Kennedy famously turned down the offer in favor of “another contact sport—politics...
...than a love interest who completes him. Their chemistry suggests a strong camaraderie rather than a burning passion, and their romance seems tacked on in the eleventh hour. By pushing Eloise out of her friend role, the movie abandons its thoughtful exploration of coping with tragedy in favor of a generic boy-meets-girl setup. Much more interesting than this tired romance is the story of a man who helps others deal with loss while staunchly refusing to even begin dealing with his own. Burke hasn’t even spoken to his in-laws since their daughter?...
Okay, so rest assured Crimson fans, ESPN Boston will occasionally rotate out the Patriots in favor of the red and white...
Students arriving on Harvard’s campus this fall discovered that the University with the progressive approach to education had made several structural changes to the college’s courses of academic study. Aside from the much-publicized overhaul of the Core Curriculum in favor of the new Program in General Education, this school year marks the first full year of a revamped English curriculum. While the changes to the English program attempt to facilitate more productive interactions between students and their course material, some concentrators feel that the modifications to the advising system have need for improvement.First...
...writer and Gofugyourself.com blogger, recalling Mizrahi's Fall 2009 New York Fashion Week show (held, naturally, in February). "Of course, if you wore it in real life, you'd look like a crazy person trying to shield herself from alien brain waves." Mizrahi wasn't the only designer to favor impractical headgear that season. That same week, designer Narciso Rodriguez sent one model down the runway in a cow-print-camouflage outfit accessorized with a bucket over her head. British Vogue described the ensemble as something that "put one in mind of Fat Albert...