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Last fall the mountain known in Tibet as Chomolungma, or Goddess Mother of the World, and in the West as Everest permitted itself to be climbed by 33 people, withheld permission (in the form of benign weather) from a much larger number and killed nine climbers. Are those good odds or bad? A flatlander's question, an observer decides, after asking it of Stacy Allison and Peggy Luce; to mountaineers, the answer is a shrug. The odds are the odds. Allison, a contractor and house framer from Portland, Ore., and Luce, a bicycle messenger from Seattle, members...
Like many young black teenagers in the 1950s, Harry Edwards saw sports as an escape from poverty. His father was a $65-a-week laborer who served time in the Illinois state penitentiary. His mother left home when he was eight. At San Jose State young Edwards starred in basketball. But the trappings of racism he found in fraternities, student housing, the faculty and staff radicalized him. By 1967 he was a Black Panther urging fellow black athletes to boycott white-sponsored events, including the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. At Cornell, where he earned a doctorate, Edwards was a mediator...
Although many parents seemed enthusiastic about the weekend's events, which include a series of faculty lectures and house receptions, one mother said she was disappointed that there were no lectures scheduled to discuss students' post-college plans...
Many parents said this weekend was a chance for a more relaxed, informal view of Harvard than the freshman parents weekend they attended two years ago. "I feel more at home," said Sandy A. Rothberg, mother of Madeleine A. Rothberg...
...guess I can tell my mother that she was wrong all along. Neither chicken soup nor hot cocoa can cure coldrelated illnesses the way a few tickets to see the Harvard hockey team play at Bright Arena...