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...Crimson, who easily could have givenup, responded with what Locker would later call "avery gutsy performance." Harvard stormed back toscore two quick goals, the second coming with onlyeight minutes left, to take a 4-3 lead. The goalswere scored on line drive blasts, first byPetruccelli--his second of the game--and then bysenior Lee Williams...
Intellectual upheavals are one thing, socialones quite another. My first year at Harvard, Iwas more reckless than ever before in my life. Itook risks without a second thought, some of thememotional ones. Youth had something to do with it,but really I was trying to replace what I'd givenup for lost--a familiar life of assured friendshipand love. And I did it by taking chances, goingout on limb after limb, hedging my bets on wildspeculations, all so that I wouldn't have to facethe changes that were happening. Many times I wasburned, but I never crashed...
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