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...Nick has taken the Harvard Polo Club quite far in just its first formal year of activity. “The Great Leap Forward,” Crocker calls this past season—presumably excepting the famine and millions of deaths that followed the Maoist version. After nearly a century of failing to gain a foothold at Harvard, the club has been able to practice with its own horses in its own practice facility this past season, generating the first official women’s team and a threefold increase in the number of players in just a year...
...Crocker bristles at polo stereotypes—associations of the sport with a culture of “Great Gatsby, Ralph Lauren, and white britches.” He considers life in the stable anything but glamorous—you have to do a lot more before you can put those white jeans on, he wryly observes...
...game like that,” Nick says. But the defeat itself is a rough reminder of just how far the team has come. “We were one or two goals away from possibly going to the Nationals, which obviously would’ve been a great accomplishment...
...Yes…NSR: Three.RR: Oh. Okay. Well, have you ever used crossword puzzles to pick up girls?NSR: No.RR: Would you?NSR: Yes, if you could present me with concrete evidence that it would work.RR: I’d bet you’d make a great boyfriend. You’re good at reading between the lines.Elizabeth RehfeldRoving Reporter (RR): What’s your favorite crossword clue of all time?Elizabeth Rehfeld (ER): Oh golly! That’s a hard one. Probably one from my puzzle which was published in The New York Times...
...Museum - named after Young's lifestyle and fashion brand - is not only a repository of items that have inspired Young's consummately Hong Kong sense of aesthetics, but an indication of what the city's people will preserve when so many of the larger conservation battles have been lost. Great Victorian edifices have been torn down and entire districts razed; in their place we have touching displays of children's toys, old phones and cameras, food and household-goods packaging, and a wall of old letterboxes. "It is ironic that disposable items are being kept in a museum," says Young...