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...national powerhouses he’d face on a weekly basis, it seems unlikely. Harvard may not be bowl-eligible or even playoff-eligible, but its program does, despite its faults, provide Murphy with a chance to win. Indiana simply doesn’t. What kind of a gift is that, Santa...
Don’t forget Murphy himself, though, Santa. His position at Harvard is a high-end gift in itself, or so Murphy said when he referred to his post as a “lifetime job” in November. And the Crimson’s key departures combined with the parity of the Ivy League will leave him with several new challenges come next season...
...away with below-par campus offerings. As the competition between universities for the top students inevitably increases, Harvard will soon be forced to reconcile its long inadequate approach to student life. A new student center in Allston, which has begun to seem increasingly possible, is by no means a gift to the student body; it is a requirement to bring the Harvard campus in line with 21st century standards of college life...
...persuade Soga to accompany them. "They promised me all kinds of things if I came back with my wife," he says. "They would give me a new car, a new house, new clothes, a new television. They told me everything I wanted would be Kim Jong Il's gift." But Jenkins had resolved instead to turn himself in to the U.S. military, against the urging of his North Korean contacts and Dresnok (the two Americans had met up again in Pyongyang). "They told me, 'If you go, you are going to jail for life,' but I didn't care," Jenkins...
...ought to have known it wouldn’t. I am old enough to know that many things we dread turn out to be less important than we had anticipated, and old enough to know that we are all blessed with an extraordinary gift for adaptation. But I do not know whether to find this reminder on the ease of selling out—even in this small way—heartening or discouraging. It suggests, I think, that the other kinds of selling out we have dreaded—getting a corporate job, abandoning our elliptical late-night conversations...