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...nuanced point came off the wrong way. It should be recognized as such, and not as the defining moment of his five years as president. But regardless of one’s opinion of his tenure, it is clear that Summers deserves better than to be shouted down at Medford by misinformed critics. We hope that Summers’ speech tonight will show his critics just how off base they...
...said. “It was really great to see him fence up to his potential. As a senior, he’s really given a lot to the team, and it’s really great to see him perform that well.” Harvard travels to Medford, Mass., next Saturday for the NCAA Northeast Regional where the number of fencers that will compete in the search for a second consecutive national championship will be decided...
Such forced linguistic assimilation at Harvard is still commonplace. While there are certainly undergraduates and faculty members from locales such as Medford, where the Boston accent is de rigueur, I have yet to hear the hub’s trademark non-rhoticity on campus. This does not mean that everyone strives to sound like Tom Brokaw...
...mobster turned informant who provided unprecedented access to federal agents in a landmark case; in December; of a pulmonary embolism. He had been living under the witness protection program in Little Rock, Ark. The self-described "stool pigeon" tipped off agents to a top-secret 1989 induction ceremony in Medford, Mass., attended by 17 reputed mobsters. The result, the first ever recording of such a rite, toppled a powerful New England crime family...
...greater rivalry; amazingly, the Lake Winnipesaukee, N.H. race was the first intercollegiate sporting competition in the United States. The oars came into the possession of the Marino family in 1981, when Paul’s father discovered them while cleaning out the basement of a building in Medford he had recently purchased. “Soon after the discovery of the trophy oars, my father, my sister Connie and I all went to the Harvard and Yale library archives and learned of their great historical significance,” Marino writes in an e-mail. As the Times reported, most...