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Indeed, the University's Baker professor of economics has straddled two worlds--a feat many insiders say has helped to make him a top contender for the Harvard presidency...
...while everyone is shooting for the Crimson, Harvard will be looking to repeat its feat of two years ago, when the Crimson knocked off Princeton at Jadwin...
Nowhere was Hammer's rage for fame more obtrusive than in his role as a collector of old masters and Impressionists, which he flew around the world as promotion for Oxy and himself. Hammer's proudest feat was his 1980 purchase, for $5.12 million (a big price then), of a manuscript by Leonardo da Vinci called the Codex Leicester, which he renamed the Codex Hammer. It consists of 36 pages of notes on water movement. There is not a single drawing of aesthetic interest among the meager diagrams in the margins...
...professional jealousy was understandable. The vivid first-person accounts that Shaw and his colleagues transmitted during the initial bombing of the Iraqi capital -- while other reporters in Baghdad were cut off from the world -- amounted to the TV coup of the week. The feat was possible because CNN was able to gain phone access that the Iraqis had denied other news organizations. The three major U.S. networks were left fuming. NBC reporter Tom Aspell complained on air that Baghdad had given CNN "preferential treatment...
...championship is Harvard's fourth Pan-Amvictory in the last decade and third consecutivefirst-place win since 1988. The only other team tohave won three times in a row is Toronto, whichaccomplished the feat between 1980 and 1982.Daniel H. SchumannVictorious members of Harvard's championchess team are (from left to right) ANDREW H.SEROTTA '91, DANIEL H. EDELMAN '91, graduatestudent MARK E. GLICKMAN and VIVEK...