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...decades ago, taking care of your heart didn't seem all that complicated. You ate a balanced diet, didn't drink too much and got some fresh air and exercise--a round of golf, maybe. That was about it. Not that everyone, or even most people, actually lived up to these standards. But if you fell short, at least you knew what to feel guilty about...
Judging by the opening tournament of the season, you wouldn’t have thought that this would turn into a successful building year for the Harvard men’s golf team. In new head coach Jim Burke’s debut, the Crimson had just three golfers ready to play after injury, illness, and Freshman Week deprived the team of four of its players, leading to disqualification. But the team quickly recovered. Freshman Michael Shore took to the course after Freshman Week and placed third in his second tournament, while classmates John Christensen and Josh Isner played well...
...many college sports teams, graduation is the enemy—an annual exodus of the team’s most experienced and often most talented players. For the Harvard women’s golf team, however, the loss of three seniors—almost half of its roster—provided the opportunity for new talent to take the reins. It was freshman Ali Bode who set the tone for the upcoming year, earning a share of first-place honors in the season-opening Dartmouth Invitational. “As a freshman, it was great for her to contribute that...
...captain of a young team, an important quality is the ability to lead by example. D.J. Hynes, captain of the Harvard men’s golf team, did just that over the course of the season. His scores were consistently among the best on the team, providing a model for the team’s rookies. Hynes also set an example with a particularly gutsy performance in the second week of the season. When a knee injury left Hynes unable to participate in the season-opening Dartmouth Invitational, the Crimson was disqualified from participating, unable to field the required four...
...want, is for what I'm reading to have already undergone the sort of editing that allows reading to be an intimate, thoroughly immersive, deeply pleasurable activity. Who is going to DJ "Freakonomics," the opening chapter of "The Mill on the Floss," and one of Mr. Updike's golf poems into some grisly new work? The only people who will do something like that are the same people who stand most to benefit from bookscanning: writers! Book scanning...