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When asked about her numerous achievements and honors, Kirkland House resident Maureen Finn pauses, laughs and explains, "My father always told us that if we weren't going to do our best at something, then we shouldn't bother doing...
...Finn--himself the mayor of the Finn hometown of Malvern, Pennsylvania--has every reason to be proud of his youngest daughter, who has won All-Ivy and All-New England laurels for her skilled field hockey and lacrosse play in her two years as a starter at Harvard, and who was selected by her hockey teammates this season to serve as co-captain of the squad as a junior...
...players--junior Kate Martin, the only first-team All-Ivy player on the squad, and Lili Pew--attended a field hockey development camp over the summer and advanced to the rank of B-camp, just one step below the National Team. In addition, co-captains Sara LeBlond and Maureen Finn also attended development camp, as well as a dozen others...
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...This is no cheeky celebrity-jock special for weekend TV. His mentor is the most successful "serious" young writer in America. Few novelists are rewarded financially as well as critically. Fewer still make cultural waves. In the '50s J.D. Salinger produced Catcher in the Rye, the Huckleberry Finn for the Silent Generation. Readers in the '60s and early '70s rallied around Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, with its "karass," and the casually philosophical "So it goes," from Slaughterhouse-Five. The end of the decade be longed to Irving and Garpomania: a choice of paperback...