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...begins this month, Harvard students would do well to remember that baseball-team allegiances cannot be so credibly and honorably fabricated as, say, their recent enthusiasm for Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy. These loyalties spring from years of careful attention, affection, and devotion, season after season of heartbreak alternating, regularly but unpredictably, with triumph. These are bonds formed not only over the course of a lifetime, but inherited intact from generations that have gone before...
...best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the euphoric feeling of victory, the bittersweet heartbreak of loss. It was the sense of camaraderie, the injuries, the morning lifts, the grueling hours of practice, the games, the fans, the atmosphere...
...collegiate women’s hockey programs facing off in the 2007 NCAA quarterfinals. Two Patty Kazmaier award winners trying to lead their team to the Frozen Four. More than five thousand fans in attendance.No wonder it took four overtimes to settle the score.Now imagine the heartbreak when Wisconsin forward Jinelle Zaugg finally put a puck past Harvard goaltender Brittany Martin after more than 127 minutes of scoreless play.The Badgers went on to win a national championship. The Crimson went on to spring break.Tonight, No. 1 Harvard (32-1-0) has a chance to erase that bitter taste from...
...things in this life are more awkward than the first relationship or sexual encounter. The first experience of love is a minefield scattered with mistakes and regrets. But while no one wants to experience heartbreak firsthand, reading about others’ experiences delivers a dose of schadenfreude—as is the case with “Things I’ve Learned From Women Who’ve Dumped Me.” “Things I’ve Learned,” a collection of short works by 30 male comedy writers, including Stephen Colbert, Will...
...Corliss thinks Shakespeare in Love and its leading lady, Gwyneth Paltrow, were not Oscar worthy? The film has the cleverest plot, the most literate dialogue and the best acting and musical score, all while offering hilarity and heartbreak, romance and cold calculation. It succeeds marvelously in every way. As for Paltrow, if talent were possessed of speed, light itself would lag behind her. She gave breathtaking performances as Lady Viola and Thomas Kent in Shakespeare in Love, and she got only one Oscar for it? What was the Academy thinking? Alan B. Posner, Royal Oak, Mich...