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Harvard's traditional reputation--and reality--as a grooming school for the international ruling elite makes the school an excellent fit for squash junkies, perhaps on par with Princeton, but better academically. The bargain is mutual: squash players boost Harvard's team, and the team provides a welcome outlet for kids who were nursed on slow-bouncing, soft, black rubber balls. Harvard's new reputation--and reality--as a meritocratic training ground for new generations of symbolic analysts has added a welcome twist to the squash world. Those students from public high schools, who might have had a decent tennis...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: A Game for the Leisure Class | 2/19/1998 | See Source »

Massage serves as an outlet for stress, which is something many Harvard students could certainly use. Ernetta explains that stress triggers a process that can lead to a cycle of pain and muscle spasm. Stress releases endocrines into the system, and if an individual does not return to homeostasis, muscles remain contracted and oxygen deprivation occurs. This deprivation hurts. Too bad Ernetta doesn't teach...

Author: By Lynda A. Yast, | Title: Knead to Relax? | 2/19/1998 | See Source »

During the Civil War, the women of Cambridgeformed a sewing bee--a circle of women whoconvened weekly to sew uniforms for the Unionsoldiers. Members naturally formed friendshipsover the long hours spent together working, andwhen the war ended, the group continued to meet asa book club and social outlet...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Bee: A Club of Their Own | 2/17/1998 | See Source »

Lipson says the club was originally formed as asocial outlet...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Bee: A Club of Their Own | 2/17/1998 | See Source »

...following day, Jan. 23, ABC became the first major news outlet to break the dress story based on its own sources. Jackie Judd reported that "Lewinsky says she saved, apparently as a kind of souvenir, a navy blue dress with the President's semen stain on it." In a tantalizing choice of words, Judd attributed the story to "someone with specific knowledge" of the events. Last week ABC spokeswoman Eileen Murphy said the network is "satisfied with the sources," but declined to characterize them further...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press And The Dress | 2/16/1998 | See Source »

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