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...were lit up talking about "the great DiMaggio," as Hemingway's old man called him; his death bequeathed that final gift. I chatted with Roger Angell, the baseball writer, and remarked upon that well-known yet unbelievable statistic: 361 lifetime home runs, 369 lifetime strikeouts. Angell made the point finer when he noted that in 1941, in 541 at bats, DiMaggio struck out only 13 times. Then the two of us sighed like kids...
...worst day, when the House debated the articles of impeachment and the Democratic leader implored his colleagues to "step back from the abyss." Only five Democrats defected. Later, at the White House, Gore stood up to say what many lawmakers thought: "I don't believe I have heard a finer speech on the floor of the House...
Harvard's U.S. Rhodes recipients this year areJonathan J. Finer '99 of Winthrop House, Akash K.Kapur '98, formerly affiliated with Dunster Houseand Navin Narayan '99 of Adams House
...Finer said it was "not something I everexpected or even thought about the possibility ofuntil very recently...
Lisa Clayton Robinson, Winthrop House'sfellowships tutor, downplayed her role inencouraging Finer's application...