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...grew older, if not wiser, and the golden image I had constructed frayed around the edges. It was not just that I gained a more realistic vision of the College, but that I came to recognize that the widely held image of Harvard as a profoundly unique institution—one possessed of some indescribable allure—was both inaccurate and pretentious...
...Mayweather, who has some of the quickest hands on the planet, was able to land a good shot to De La Hoya's cranium, but the Golden Boy wasn't hurt. Both fighters' faces looked raw, Mayweather with puffiness over his right eye, but no one really sustained serious damage. Going after Mayweather and trying to use brute force was a sound strategy because as recently as 2003, the slighter Mayweather was fighting as a lightweight at 135 pounds. De La Hoya pressed the action, throwing 587 punches to Mayweather's 481. "I felt I won the fight...
...irritate De La Hoya and fire up the partisan crowd, Mayweather came into the arena cheekily wearing a white sombrero and the red and green colors of Mexico on his trunks; his corner men wore T-shirts emblazoned with the words "Mayweather Loves Mexico." Meanwhile De La Hoya, the "Golden Boy" the superstar who grew up in impoverished East Los Angeles and now lives with his pop-star wife and their toddler son in a 12-room mansion on the outskirts of San Juan, Puerto Rico, burnished his squeaky image of dedicated family man, budding business mogul (his Golden...
...read a lot about successful university administrators. And, it turns out, she is one who had a personal as well as professional understanding of the stresses of our rsum culture. It would be a useful lesson for M.I.T.'s students if the gatekeeper who gets to award the golden credential of a degree from the world's most prestigious technical institution is someone who lacks that kind of credential. It would say, "Don't let it go to your head. An M.I.T. diploma isn't necessary. In fact, it isn't sufficient either. There are qualities that M.I.T...
...movements pioneered by Limón. Koch, who has studied ballet, modern dance, tap, jazz, and musical theatre to varying degrees of proficiency, has been dancing seriously since she was eleven years old. “Modern [dance] is really where I’m at home. But the golden rule is you start with ballet and then you figure out what you’re going to do,” Koch says.And Koch is glad she has taken her time to figure out the exact role dance will play in her life. She believes her time away from...