Word: olympicsized
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The announcement came as somewhat of a suprise, since Drury, who will return to Harvard this fall as a junior, has two years of eligibilities left. The team's fourth-leading scorer in 1990-1 took the year off to play with Team USA in the Winter Olympics.
The junior, McCormack said, has already earned the respect and admiration of his peers much as Lane MacDonald '88-89 had when he served as captain after returning from the 1988 Olympics.
For those making history, however, the action is not always attractive. Many ruble-bound Russians, faced with hyperinflation, must sell prized possessions in order to feed their families. Some are even beginning to look back on their benighted communist past with a bitter nostalgia. A young Russian engineer, now unemployed...
"She turned down the offer to become an official checker at the 1992 Summer Olympics, and her decision to remain at Harvard reinforced my belief that Roberta is the most highly dedicated checker within the Harvard community" jokes George Polsky '92.
Once the Olympics were over, Zucker landed a producing job on Today. His arrival coincided almost precisely with the start of the morning show's much publicized problems. First was the infamous Gumbel memo, in which the anchor made disparaging remarks about some of his colleagues, notably weatherman Willard Scott...