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...should stem from the fact that Harvard will face a team that is one of the richest in tradition when it comes to women's basketball. Additionally, the Crimson will battle this perennial power in Maples Pavilion, a building that is home to still more women's college basketball lore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Perez-Gizspenser | 3/12/1998 | See Source »

...feeling good about yourself, a way of measuring how far you have come. As one of Atlas's friends tells him, he needs money to feel smart. Money is treated as a psychological necessity, like security, or peace of mind. The New York Observer treats the book contract bonanza lore like a gold rush than a session with a therapist. There is so much money out there, you simply have to take advantage of the market. The Observer piece reads like a challenge to our yankee ingenuity. In the old days we would have had to invent some new spindle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Literati for Sale | 2/12/1998 | See Source »

...Rhineheart. Little remembers that "in my day, students would claim to hear him yelling. Of course, as soon as they heard the yelling they would start yelling, too, so it was sort of a joke." Little's classmate, Dean Burriss Young '55, is a veritable font of Harvard ghost lore and a deliberately non-skeptical one at that. Young remembers hearing the ghosts of University Hall. He says, "no one has heard it since 'the bust.'" (The "bust" refers to the recapture of the building after the student takeover during Vietnam protests in 1969. To get in, the police...

Author: By Drake P. Bennett, | Title: Twilight Zone: The College Years | 11/20/1997 | See Source »

These tidbits of university lore are the stuff of Crimson Key tours, and seem a bit out of place in the sleepy, middle-class neighborhood that is home to the park...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Local Park Is Rich in Harvard History | 11/19/1997 | See Source »

...story is already part of contemporary lore, a wrenching lore to break our hearts: the disappearance of a six-year old boy named Adam on July 27, 1981; the discovery of his severed head 16 days later in a Florida drainage ditch; the inability of the legal system to pin the crime on anyone. Two TV movies have been produced on the ordeal of Adam's parents, John Walsh and his wife Reve. But only recently did Walsh--the no-nonsense host of the Fox TV show America's Most Wanted--decide to write down his own story. From...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

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