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...gently but firmly informed that cheering in the press box was discouraged, that I had the time of my life covering that game and never looked back. In the end, the numbers are the trigger. They point the way to the human interest behind the name on a jersey or in a byline. Statistics don’t tell the whole story, but you wouldn’t have a whole story without them. I can’t boil it down to fit on the back of a trading card, but I can tell you that I wouldn?...
...want to make any excuses,” Harvard coach Christopher Ridolfi said, “but we didn’t have an experienced setter, and it hurt us.” Though Harvard won its first three league contests, three-game losses to New Jersey Tech and Springfield knocked the Crimson from the top of the standings into the middle of the pack. To have a chance at the division title, it seemed Harvard would have to win the rest of its matches. Motivated by the task ahead, the Crimson picked up seven straight victories. The two most...
...four years. Although the team showed signs of improvement heading into 2006, regression or exams broke the momentum, as the Crimson was thrashed again by UNH and went winless in consecutive Ivy matchups against Dartmouth, Brown, Yale, and Princeton, the latter clash an ugly 6-1 beating in New Jersey. The nadir surely arrived on Valentine’s Day, when Boston College wrested the Beanpot trophy away from Harvard, which lost, 2-0, despite its hosting privileges and a seven-year monopoly on the tournament hardware.In the ensuing weeks, though, the Crimson initiated the streak that vaulted it from...
...well in school, delay having sex, eat their vegetables, learn big words and know which fork to use. "If it were just about food, we would squirt it into their mouths with a tube," says Robin Fox, an anthropologist who teaches at Rutgers University in New Jersey, about the mysterious way that family dinner engraves our souls. "A meal is about civilizing children. It's about teaching them to be a member of their culture...
...stamps again, which, I confess, is somewhat embarrassing. There's nothing cool, hip or urbane about it. James Bond never showed off his stamp collection. But I do confess I like it, having taken about a 33-year hiatus from when I was a 10-year-old in New Jersey and used to fill books with stamps of moon landings and soldiers and exotic birds. Having a young son now has heightened my interest and so has this week's once-in-a-decade stamp show in Washington...