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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...complicate the recent spate of injuries, the Crimson entered the year handicapped by the loss of two of its offensive stars for the season—junior Matt Hoff and sophomore Mike Fucito. In addition, junior midfielder Tom Stapleton, who arrived Tuesday and should be eligible for Saturday’s match at Yale, missed the first six games after struggling to get his student visa to enter the United States from England...

Author: By Nicholas Y. Crowne, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Battered M. Soccer Finds a Way | 9/29/2005 | See Source »

...wasn’t the first to offer it. Just before they began the trip, Matt and Andrew ate dinner with friends in Tribeca. Their plan was to leave New York and make a 45-degree angle into the Midwest. From there, they’d head west to Seattle, dip down the California coast into Texas, and snake east through the South. Fifteen thousand miles later, they’d end up back in New York. Their dinner companions were impressed, but wary. “They said, ‘Be careful, there’s crazy people...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eight Weeks in America | 9/29/2005 | See Source »

...something different. “People know the streets of Prague better than they know the streets of their own country,” Andrew told me. Indeed, representatives at STA Travel say the Harvard students they advise rarely want to remain within this country’s borders. Matt and Andrew wanted to try something different. They weren’t trying to be radical; they just figured it?...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eight Weeks in America | 9/29/2005 | See Source »

...like it or not, Matt and Andrew had stumbled onto a landmine. Driving in search of escape, adventure, self-realization—that’s great, but Jack Kerouac died a long time ago. In the aftermath of the 2000 election, the American road trip has become a political act. No less a figure than Bill Clinton said so in a June speech at the Washington Convention Center. “How do the Democrats win again?” Clinton asked. “We have to go to so-called ‘Red America...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eight Weeks in America | 9/29/2005 | See Source »

None of this was on Matt and Andrew’s minds as they stood outside the bar in Nashville, trying to figure out where to go next. Sure, Matt is from Long Island, Andrew just north of San Francisco, and between them they have only ever lived in sky blue, major metropolitan areas. But by that night in late July, all that stuff in the middle was starting to feel like what it is: their country...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eight Weeks in America | 9/29/2005 | See Source »

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