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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...kind of a joke to apply to Harvard,” she says. “I was joking about how I would frame the rejection letter. I don’t know anyone who’s been to Harvard—it’s a legend.” Each year, the VUS admissions office receives around 90 applications from around the world—and from U.S. colleges, including next-door neighbors Wellesley and MIT—from students who want to spend a semester or year at Harvard, according to E. Marlene Vergara Rotner, director...

Author: By Eugenia V. Levenson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Studying Abroad at Harvard? | 10/31/2002 | See Source »

...that pairing lies a point. Ruth, the Sultan of Swat, owned baseball's record books and mythology for 50 years after his career ended. The legend was of a hardscrabble son of a saloonkeeper with a big heart who loved kids and was worshipped by his fans. Ruth was all of that, but he also set prodigious marks in beer guzzling and womanizing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He's Great. Why Does He Have to Be Good? | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

Dado is Korean for “way of tea” and the shop offers patrons plenty of ways to steep themselves in tea-knowledge. Except for water, tea rivals milk as the world’s most ancient beverage. Legend has it that Emperor Shen Nung (2727 BC) discovered tea when a fortuitous leaf fell into water that his servants were boiling for drinking. All of the different varieties of loose-leaf tea—green, oodong, black, pü ‘erh—come from a single plant, Camellia sinesnis. Each...

Author: By Mark W. Kirby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nirvana in a Teapot | 10/24/2002 | See Source »

...watch the spooky, unlabeled videotape, and seven days later you die. So goes the urban legend that was the basis of a Japanese pop phenomenon--a movie trilogy, TV series and comics. The Ring is the American spin-off, stylishly directed by Gore Verbinski and well acted by an appealing cast, led by Mulholland Drive's Naomi Watts. She's a reporter looking for a logical explanation for her niece's death and her son's increasingly haunted state. She almost finds one, and that proves to be a problem. What she discovers is a conventional mother-child psychodrama that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex, Secrets and Videotape | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

...achievements as a coach have made him a legend both at Harvard and in the rowing world at large. However, his first achievements came not from the sidelines, but on the water itself...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Legendary Coach Parker Paces Team, Old Rowing Rivals | 10/19/2002 | See Source »

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