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...tournament with eight shots more than first-place Yale and one shot less than third-place Rollins College. Coach Kevin Rhoads chalked Yale’s success up to home-field advantage under particularly difficult conditions. Wind complicated the course’s already tricky greens and narrow fairways. Challenging pin positions compounded the difficulties created by Yale’s undulating greens. Rhoads noted the challenges, calling this course his favorite, and said that “getting the approach shot close and managing a low putting total” was the name of the game. Harvard?...
Daniel J. Socolow, director of the MacArthur Fellows Program, said that the frequently applied term “genius grant,” is a misnomer that suggests a too-narrow definition of achievement. This year’s 24 fellows come from a wide range of fields and do vastly different things, but, Socolow said, “one thing they do have in common is this remarkable streak of creativity...
...safe route and held O’Hagan out for the rest of the night, trusting the game-tested Pizzotti to seal the primetime victory. O’Hagan will be back in action tomorrow, maybe with his chin strap tightened another notch, and will lead Harvard to another narrow...
...fiction and desire to obliterate the supposed highbrow/lowbrow divide. In 2005, he wrote a passionate defense of entertainment, arguing that rather than handling “the things that entertain them with gloves of irony and postmodern tongs,” intelligent people should reject “a narrow, debased concept of entertainment.” Instead, Chabon proposed an expanded definition encompassing “everything pleasurable that arises from the encounter of an attentive mind with a page of literature”—a well-written sentence, a shocking plot twist, a pointed challenge...
...estranged wife marries and divorces a string of wealthier and more fashionable men. The onset of World War II provides Guy one last chance at redemption and glory, but he soon finds the military to be full of cowards and lunatics, endlessly scheming against each other for their own narrow ends. For most of the first two books in the trilogy, Guy’s life is a series of near-successes that turn into miserable failures, as he is manipulated by forces beyond his control. But in the long run—and over his three books, Waugh...