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...thought I had developed an unprecedented maturity by the end of my first year here. I'd outgrown the petty trappings of adolescence and now yearned to partake of the finer pleasures of adulthood. So when the housing lottery rolled around in March, I knew exactly what my dream house would be. I wanted to be able to feel the tradition of the Ivy League at my Dream House. I wanted fireplaces, oak paneling, a dining hall decorated with gold trained paintings of stodgy old men - and most importantly, I wanted ivy growing everywhere, crawling out of the bricks, sprouting...
Harvard should skate rings around Northeastern, so its primary concern Monday night is setting the tone for the rest of the season. The Beanpot traditionally signals the home stretch for the Crimson, and Harvard's first lap around couldn't have been finer...
Take the national press, for example. Strewn about the city's finer hotels (both of them), the hundreds of reporters here are trying to find out what this state--and Clinton's current hometown of Little Rock--are all about...
...sparkled, showing off all the sports-for-sports'- sake swagger of a team that has won 63 of 64 international games in recent years. All but unknown prodigies with names like Omar and Orestes and Lourdes gave a master class not only in the fundamentals but also in the finer points of flamboyance -- bunting one-handed, stretching singles into triples, chiseling the plate like jewelers. According to many Americans, at least seven of them could command multimillion-dollar salaries...
Christopher Hogwood is an unlikely classical music superstar. His rigorous training, in both music and classical literature, his insistence on the finer points of musicological research in his recording ventures, and above all his adherence to the notion of "historically informed performance" seem to cast him in the role of a scholar-performer rather than that of a popularizer...