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...process that began as soon as I arrived at Harvard. My fellow students seemed, somehow, to find Boston teams a bit tiresome, if such a thing could be believed. Some people, I quickly learned, were tired of hearing about curses from a team with the second-highest payroll in baseball, or about the quarterback who threw perfect spirals and dated Brazilian übermodels. In fact, they seemed to feel that Boston fans were just a little bit entitled (imagine that!), unbearably smug and boastful when their teams won, and sulky and defensive when they didn’t.It...

Author: By Daniel J. Rubin-wills, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Confessions of a Boston Sports Fan | 6/3/2008 | See Source »

...much of the Crimson’s core will be back again next year.Junior Brady Weissbourd slammed down an average of 3.78 kills per game and had a season hitting percentage of .439, while sophomore Erik Kuld paced the Crimson offense with 4.05 kills per game, the 19th-highest mark in the country. Weintraub was No. 1 in the country with an average of .564 serving aces per game.“You really hate to see starters leave you, but when seniors leave, that opens up the opportunity for younger guys to step it up, and I have...

Author: By Courtney D. Skinner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Comes up Short of Hay Crown, Playoff Position | 6/3/2008 | See Source »

...NCAAs. “I was a little disappointed in my performance,” Clarke said after the event. “I swam faster at our meet in Georgia [in December] and at Ivies.” Papadakis finished her Harvard career in style, notching her highest-ever NCAA finish—17th place in the 3-meter event, just one place shy of becoming an All-American. She won the 1-meter event at Ivies. Co-captain Jackie Pangilinan turned in another impressive season as the Crimson’s top breaststroker, rewriting her 100 breaststroke school...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Freshmen Help Undersized Squad Earn Outsized Results | 6/3/2008 | See Source »

...only are the predicted Rank Listings to a large extent inaccurate, but these Listings would become even less meaningful as the academic caliber of the College increased. Besides, limiting admission of students to those with the highest Predicted Rank List of Groups I or II, would discriminate against students from the poorer secondary schools, thus greatly decreasing the geographic and social distribution of the College...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Acad-Admissions | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

Clinton polls well statewide among older white women, and among a majority of Democrats in the conservative eastern half of the state, while Obama rated highest in the traditionally liberal, organized-labor towns of the western half. But a poll taken the third week of May showed Obama handily winning Montana Democrats. While only three of the state superdelegates have publicly pledged for Obama, the rest are likely to go the way of the primary results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Montana: The Democrats' Last Stand | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

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