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...cheaper routes to self-esteem. "We're about to put $20,000 into a $900 car," a craftsman boasts as he rebuilds a pathetic Mitsubishi Mirage for Antwon, a 19-year-old art student. The gleaming, finished car is hilariously over the top (it includes a built-in fish tank), and Antwon is delighted. But I have to wonder: Wouldn't he be better off with $20,000 to pimp his college fund...
...this is just great preparation for the NCAAs,” Harvard coach David Fish ’72 said in reference to the NCAA berth his team would earn with an Ivy crown. “Arguably [there will be] really tough conditions for us, but it’s exactly the kind of circumstance we want to be in to prepare for an equally challenging NCAA...
...been really pleased with just about everybody,” Fish said with a laugh when asked to pick the strongest performances of his team. “I think they’ve all done a good...
...visit. Besides, I’d already heard that the social life paled in comparison to the raging parties at state schools; that students sacrificed Saturday nights to do homework; and that after a lifetime of success and accolades, overachievers often became dismayed to find themselves the little fish in a big pond. I wanted college to be fun, social and, of course, the best four years of my life. Plainly put, I didn’t think Harvard could fulfill my expectations. But, begrudgingly, I set off last spring to verify my assumptions...
...first [clinic] that we’ve done at Harvard,” explained Andy Crane, who cultivated the relationship between the Eastern Massachussetts Committee of USA Tennis New England and the Harvard team. “We were trying to do something different, and we talked to Coach Fish about it, and he thought it would be a great idea to do one here after a match with the players on the team.”The event also drew a handful of children from Tenacity, a Boston-based youth tennis group with which Crane is also affiliated...