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Affectionately dubbed “Pineapple Milt” in honor of his home state of Hawaii, Holt had best been known around campus as a baseball player, the ace of the Crimson staff and a reigning First Team All-New England selection. Suddenly, he faced the tough task of leading a rebuilding squad still seething from its disastrous 35-0 drubbing in New Haven in the previous season’s finale...
After graduation, Holt returned home to Honolulu to embark on his post-Harvard career. By 1978, the 26-year old prodigy had already been elected to the Hawaii state legislature as a state representative. Despite his youth, many were already predicting that the democratic Holt would one day become governor of the island state...
...indeed, it seemed that Holt’s supporters were onto something. Using his guile and skill in political maneuvering, he quickly became one of the most respected and powerful figures in Hawaii, holding a long-standing position as a state senator and ultimately rising to Vice President of the state senate...
...Rose, the meaning of Saturday’s Harvard-Yale game has to do with more than football. It’s about the end of a very long journey, one that started in 1998 with him being plucked from the playing fields of his native Hawaii and brisked away to Harvard Stadium—and a journey that, in the past 10 months alone, has tested both his body and mind...
It’s late January, and Rose and some friends are getting ready to leave Las Vegas, their intercession destination. But while the friends get on a place headed back to Boston, Rose is going in the opposite direction—home to Hawaii...