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...Led by future NFL running back Calvin Hill and quarterback Brian Dowling (known as “God” in New Haven), the ‘68 Yale squad entered The Game well on its way to extending its 16 game winning streak. But a scrappy Harvard team, down 29-13 with just 42 seconds left in the fourth quarter, would have none of it as it fought back to “defeat” Yale...
Howard’s appreciation of his own education led him to launch the Dr. Howard Lonsdale Scholarship, named after his mentor who encouraged him to apply to Princeton. The program supports students from Vallejo who otherwise would be unable to afford college tuition...
Recruited for his shooting ability, Boehm averaged six points and two rebounds per game and led his team with 123 three-point attempts—going 36 percent from behind the arc—and was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week twice last season...
...Germany, along with financial success. His book about the two years he spent posing as Turkish guest worker Ali Levent Sinirlioglu, The Lowest of the Low, sold more than 5 million copies and forced Germany to have a national discussion about its long-neglected Turkish minority. The dialogue led to a strengthening of the rights of temporary workers in the country and gave Germans of Turkish descent their first real foothold in politics...
...teenager, Leonor Marquez led a fleet-footed unit of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) guerrilla fighters through the steep mountain passes of Perkin, El Salvador. "We were young and fast," Marquez, now 37, remembers. She and her comrades, who were known as "Las Samuelitas", were a fierce group of insurgents who might have been giddy junior high girls had they not been in El Salvador in the 1980s...