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Everyone experiences a few infamous "firsts" at Harvard. The first walk to the Quad. The first time lotteried out of a Core course. That first glorious mouthful of venerable vegetables...
July 30, V-S Day (Victory over Steinbrenner), may become a patriotic holiday in New York City and wherever the proud traditions of baseball are honored. That evening, the commissioner announced the glorious news: "Mr. Steinbrenner will have no further involvement in the management of the New York Yankees." At Yankee Stadium, where the last-place club that Steinbrenner has assembled (a Mercenaries Row of no-talent free agents, high-priced castoffs and rookies) was playing the Detroit Tigers, the crowd rose in a standing ovation when the news spread that the familiar chant "the Boss must go" would actually...
Nelson Mandela's grand and glorious reception in New York City came about only after some backstage scrambling. The problem? To avert major protests by Jewish organizations upset at Mandela's tendency to equate the black South African struggle with that of Palestinians and at his warm words for Arafat. Before the scheduled visit, Harry Belafonte and Roger Wilkins, officials of the Mandela welcome committee, arranged for Jewish leaders to meet with Mandela in Geneva. Though he succeeded in mollifying some of them by acknowledging Israel's right to exist, more militant Jews went away from the talks still intent...
...first-class expertise and glorious achievement in space technology, the U.S. has had more than a fair share of bad luck, not to say tragedy. Now the quality of that vaunted technology has become a serious question. Last week, in a period of just a few days, NASA discovered that its $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope had been fitted with a faulty mirror and that a second of its three shuttles had sprung hydrogen leaks...
...despite my seemingly blase new attitude, I've recently discovered that my hopes for a glorious Sox season manifest themselves as pervasively, if not as passionately, as ever before. The first thing I do every summer morning--as I have done for the past 12 years--is open up the sports pages and see how the team fared the previous night...