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...debate over the future of golf, as in so many sports at present, excitement over progress competes with reverence for the past. At Augusta, though, it's no contest - nostalgia has been the driving force behind the changes to the course, and also explains the tournament's wider efforts to foster a throwback feel. Part of the appeal of any sport is the link it provides to previous generations. But because the Masters is the only major golf tournament to return to the same course every year, the notion of following in the footsteps of one's forebears is literal...
...have proven to be among Harvard’s best, both for this year and many years to come, undermining the many recent admissions initiatives with the explicit purpose of attracting the strongest, most diverse, and most interesting students as possible.This move also undoes much of the progress to make Harvard’s undergraduate experience available to all. While we have made strides in improving the socio-economic, racial, and geographic diversity of Harvard’s undergraduates, the decision to end the transfer program is a fatal blow to students who, for any variety of reasons, have made...
...10th-seeded Cody Cleveland. The eventual eighth-place finisher and All-American overcame the upstart freshman with a 3-0 decision, marking the end of a short but valuable tournament for Janzten.“Even going to nationals doesn’t [fully] show the progress he’s made,” Weiss observed. “He’s wrestled totally differently these last two weeks from the beginning of the season. It’s really exciting.”While Jantzen did not share his coach’s optimism about the tournament...
...conducts it with great good humor so that most of the time it’s fun,” Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath ’70 said. “Most of the time you feel very good and satisfied with the progress we make each hour.”This last leg of the process which consisted of meetings that lasted late into the night, were physically as well as mentally demanding, Donahue said.But Fitzsimmons said he finds the whole experience exhilarating. “You learn all about 27,000 life stories. You learn about...
...Brammertz adopted a very different approach when he took over from Mehlis in December 2005. He shunned the media and released perfunctory reports that revealed little of the investigation's progress. He confirmed that the likely motive for Hariri's assassination was his political activities, centered on the former prime minister's deteriorating relations with the Syrian leadership in the last months of his life. And there appeared to be no drastic change of direction in the focus of the investigation as first conveyed by Mehlis. But there was no more naming of suspects, nor inclusion of witness statements that...