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There are various explanations for this phenomenon. One reason for attrition in certain sports is the increased intensity of athletics nationwide in recent years. Scalise recounts that in his days as a student-athlete in the 1970s, there was no such thing as cross-training or playing multiple sports year-round. Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William Fitzsimmons ’67, who was a goaltender for the Harvard men’s hockey team, explains the difference in a similar...
...Harry G. Kimball has a well-developed theory to explain the phenomenon. “We are similarly alienated from mainstream music, but in different ways,” he says. “What we play is underground, obscure: Punk, Hard Core, Indie Rock, ... The prisoners tend to think older, more traditional Heavy Metal. There is a difference between what they want and what we play, but we’re the only music station that accepts requests and is easy to call...
...Forward Spin: It will probably take until 2006 for cheap, sophisticated in-car data devices to become a mass phenomenon. Pieper is pushing Germany and France to follow the Netherlands? lead...
...compilation of many popular Dispatch songs, Braddigon, Chetro and Repete are not looking to slow down any time soon. Armed with a growing fan base and the word-of-mouth popularity that landed them an opportunity to play the FleetBoston Pavilion last June, Dispatch are an up-and-coming phenomenon with enough pull to get students all too concerned with grades to stay out way past their bedtimes. Longtime Dispatch fan Kerry M. Houlihan ’05 said, “It was a little surreal to see Dispatch playing in Sanders because I’m used...
...compilation of many popular Dispatch songs, Braddigon, Chetro and Repete are not looking to slow down any time soon. Armed with a growing fan base and the word-of-mouth popularity that landed them an opportunity to play the FleetBoston Pavilion last June, Dispatch are an up-and-coming phenomenon with enough pull to get students all too concerned with grades to stay out way past their bedtimes. Longtime Dispatch fan Kerry M. Houlihan ’05 said, “It was a little surreal to see Dispatch playing in Sanders because I’m used...