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Reka Cserny ’05 was the last Harvard standout to win it, but for the last decade, the Ivy League Player of the Year award has spent a bulk of its time in Lavietes Pavilion.Cserny took home the honor after spearheading Harvard’s come-from-behind Ivy title run in 2005. Hana Pejlto ’04 was a two-time Ivy Player of the Year, and Allison Feaster ’98, arguably the best player ever to suit up for Harvard, won the award three consecutive times. And after spending a year each...
Seasons once had a rhythm to them, tuned to the harvest or the hunt, with rituals spaced through the year to bring the rain, praise the sun, mark the time between solstice and equinox, celebrate birth and honor death. Our holidays answer our needs to feast and mourn and manage risk, our customs customized to the point that the Roman pagans had a holiday specifically designed to prevent a certain kind of mold from destroying the wheat by offering animal sacrifices to the god of mildew. We remember those we love on Valentine's Day, those we revere on Easter...
...here is a sweeping generalization, but perhaps a useful one: Western societies are cultures of personal revelation and exposure, while Muslim cultures are traditionally structured around protecting honor and propriety. On our shrunken planet, the two codes bump up against each other, throwing the other into relief. The same era that's given us Big Brother and a cybervideo of Paris Hilton in flagrante has also produced a striking rise of Western Muslims taking up the veil. The more of private life that Western pop culture reveals, the more that Muslim women decide to conceal. And the differences between...
...think America will ever regain the honor and prestige of our "Greatest Generation"? -Debra Sexton, Bethel Island, Calif. Within every generation there is greatness. What you don't want to have America do again is to go through the tests that made the Greatest Generation: first the Depression, and then World...
...says. “The level of hockey is so high, you can’t do anything by yourself.” Chute, in contrast to her Ukrainian classmate, is a decidedly homegrown collegiate hockey player. She earned the Associated Press’s Player of the Year honor during her senior year of high school at the Blake School in Minnesota. Chute was a multi-sport star in high school, garnering All-State recognition in both lacrosse and cross country. A levelheaded player, Chute should bring stability to the Harvard middle and, along with sophomore and fellow Minnesotan...