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Penn edged Harvard last year, 36-35, in a crucial, thrilling game that cost the Crimson any chance at the league title. Trailing 35-27 late in the fourth quarter, the Quakers staged a furious comeback behind quarterback Gavin Hoffman, scoring a field goal and touchdown to take a 36-35 lead...

Author: By Elijah M. Alper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Football Preps for Penn | 11/9/2001 | See Source »

...Quaker offense features last year’s Ivy League Player of the Year in Hoffman. This year, he’s not even the team’s best player...

Author: By Elijah M. Alper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Football Preps for Penn | 11/9/2001 | See Source »

...Hoffman spreads the ball around—six receivers have at least 10 catches—but his favorite target is Rob Milanese, who has 42 catches on the year...

Author: By Elijah M. Alper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Football Preps for Penn | 11/9/2001 | See Source »

...size what they lacked in grace, splendor or architectural intelligence; they were to the Empire State Building what the 1976 ?King Kong? remake (in which the beast falls from the top of one or both towers) was to the 1933 original (which concludes you-know-where). As Nicholas Von Hoffman wrote of the Twin Towers in last week?s New York Observer, ?They were a couple of ugly and ill-proportioned buildings of egotistical dimensions and heartlessness. They had nothing noteworthy about them but gross altitude.? I always thought of them as two stacks of staples in God?s office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Where I Live | 11/6/2001 | See Source »

...syndrome also causes a persistent and often unconscious use of certain buzzwords to describe Harvard students. Like Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man, with his constant repetition of “Wopner…Wopner time…Wopner’s on,” a victim of the Harvard Syndrome inevitably resorts to terms like lazy, arrogant, spoiled, overrated and elitist whenever our university comes up in conversation. Often, they will have little or no actual experience of Harvard, beyond a tour and perhaps a disastrous interview. Indeed, the sufferer may even have no idea what polysyllabic words like...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, | Title: The Harvard Syndrome | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

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