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...watch him, he’s making three times the plays as anyone else, and he’s never rattled,” says Crocker, who has few reservations about extolling Nick’s prowess on the field. Nick is “clearly” the best player on the team, “obviously” the exceptional one, and the “advantage” Harvard has over other schools...
...Under the coaching of Crocker and wife Katherine T. “Cissie” Jones, most of the players have been transformed from inexperienced riders to mallet-waving, galloping fiends. And with only three players per lineup on the field during an intercollegiate game, having even one player as experienced as Nick has made the national championships a genuine possibility this year for the young team. But for that very same reason, Nick’s success is a constant bleak reminder of how much the club will lose next season...
...cater his riding to the animal, Nick says. Does the horse have a “good mouth,” meaning, is it receptive to a pull on the reins? Will the horse go boldly into the wall, or will it balk? Are there other horses on the field it doesn’t like? Does the horse play smaller than it looks, or is it slow and unengaged, perhaps on the sluggish side...
...grips the arena net in rapt attention. If you close your eyes and simply listen, you can get a good idea of what’s happening in the polo match: the light pattering of pony feet as they scamper around a throw-in, the thunderous stampeding down the field when everyone is chasing a ball that’s strayed far ahead, or the clanking of mallets and buckling of side boards against horse flesh when the ball falls into the corners...
...tragic irony is that it was Fujimori's attention to detail that helped make him one of Latin America's most popular leaders of the late 20th century. The son of Japanese immigrants, he emerged out of left field to win the 1990 election and take over a country of 28 million people that was adrift and under siege by Marxist guerrillas. Its annual inflation rate was near 7,600%, and insurgents had three quarters of the country under a state of emergency. Fujimori quickly tackled the hyperinflation, and in 1992 his security forces arrested Shining Path leader Abimael Guzman...