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...There was the basic fact that I was thinking about higher education as a seventh-grader. And then, there was the specificity, tinged with a hint of arrogance, as if I actually had a 10-year plan in mind...
Although the Harvard men’s golf team struggled through a number of mediocre tournament finishes in the fall and spring seasons, stellar individual rounds from some of the team’s youngest contributors hint at a bright future ahead. In the Ivy League Championships last month, the Crimson finished in fifth place out of eight teams. On the following weekend, Harvard captured third place at the Northeast Invitational in Portsmouth, R.I., its best finish of the season. Despite finishing in the bottom half of the field in six tournaments, the Crimson regarded this year as laying...
Locals in Riga, the Latvian capital, have a favorite trivia question: what was the biggest city in the 17th century Swedish empire? (Hint: it wasn't Stockholm.) For centuries, the stately medieval port on the shores of the eastern Baltic Sea served as the bustling gateway between Russia and the West. Then, following World War II, it withered after the Iron Curtain fell across Eastern Europe, cutting it off from the outside world. But Riga is now experiencing a renaissance. It may not have re-established the prominence it enjoyed 400 years ago, but as any of its trivia-wielding...
...better President than the current occupant of the office. He actually got along with Democrats, some of the time, as Governor of Massachusetts. He passed a universal health care plan that, more generously funded, could be a model for a national system. But there isn't the slightest hint of courage or conviction in his stump act. It's a candidacy for the era before 2001, before things got serious. And his success or failure will be a reflection of how serious the electorate...
...little time for talking. "Our editor wants more [stalking]," he explains with the hint of a scoff. "Apparently we don't have enough for the front page...