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...Saturday, the defending Ivy League champion and 15th-ranked Harvard men’s soccer team opened its 2007 campaign with a win against the defending Atlantic 10 champion, No. 22 Rhode Island. “This is a great win for us,” co-captain Matt Hoff said. “This is one of the better teams we are going to play all season.” Fifteen minutes into the second half, with the score locked at 2-2, Hoff collected a pass on the right wing from junior defender Marcel Perl. Hoff then split...
...William Pollack's Real Boys (1998), which asserted that contemporary boys are "scared and disconnected," "severely lagging" behind girls in both achievement and self-confidence. The following year, journalist Susan Faludi argued in Stiffed that the cold calculus of global economics was emasculating American men. In 2000 philosopher Christina Hoff Sommers blamed off-the-rails feminism for sparking The War Against Boys, and two years later writer Elizabeth Gilbert found The Last American Man living in a teepee in the Appalachian Mountains. By the time our boy was headed to third grade, magazine editors were grinding out cover headlines like...
Christina Hoff Sommers, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, was explaining how she came to worry deeply about boys. In the book-lined parlor of her suburban Washington home, she ticked through a familiar but disturbing indictment: More boys than girls are in special-education classes. More boys than girls are prescribed mood-managing drugs. This suggests to her (and others) that today's schools are built for girls, and boys are becoming misfits. As a result, more boys than girls drop out of high school. Boys don't read as well as girls. And America's prisons...
...From his performance [in Panama], I think he should make it,” said junior Matt Hoff, who will captain the Crimson during the upcoming season. “He will definitely do well at that level...
...knowing we had to shut them down,” Zizzo said. “That was definitely our first goal.”The Crimson’s best chance of the first half came when sophomore midfielder John Stamatis poked a ball through to junior midfielder Matt Hoff on the right side. Hoff sent a high cross to Altchek just outside the 18-yard box, and Altchek’s subsequent header landed at Akpan’s feet.But the Bruins’ lightning fast defense reacted immediately, shifting two defenders to cover Akpan and deflecting his shot...