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...attracted a large number of exceptional athletes who are also blessed with strong academic credentials. While there have been one or two warnings issued by the Administrative Board, not once in the past four years has a swimmer had his right to compete revoked for a sub par academic performance...
First, the good news. Les Amis are unbelieveably hospitable. Compared with them, according to GM, "the Frenchman is the most constipated human being on earth." Forget many of the chauvinistic clichés of the past. (Chauvin, after all, was a Frenchman.) Par exemple, the book points out, "the notion that the Americans could produce anything good to eat or drink used to make us giggle." Faux. Actually, there are several restaurants in New York (run mostly by Frenchmen) that would rank with some of the best in Paris. American restaurants, the book says, "are infinitely more elaborate, elegant...
...boulevardier, I must agree with many of the sentiments expressed in the Guide. Par exemple, New York itself: "It is beautiful and hideous, tender and violent, generous and greedy, fascinating and horrifying. New York is the image of the whole continent. Contradictory, profound, lyrical. . . it is the most electric city in the world." The authors add that your visit will be "more than a simple tourist trip, it will be a decisive stage in your maturing...
...They didn't play up to par," sophomore Tiina Bougas said after the match. Perhaps not, but Princeton's Joy Cummings played well enough to topple Bougas in the first position, 6-4, 6-4, and three other Harvard players met similar fates in their singles matches...
...sort of an off-day," co-captain Glenn Alexander offered by way of explaining the team's performance. Carroll Lowenstein, who shot a respectable three-over-par 74, led the Crimson. Alexander and co-captain Chip Raffi compiled 82 and 83 respectively for Harvard's next best individual scores...