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...football is being pushed by several forces at once. On one hand, its own increasingly intense recruiting has made it more legitimate in the football world. Dartmouth’s Jay Fiedler, Columbia’s Marcellus Wiley and Yale’s Eric Johnson all start in the pros. On the other, the Ancient Eight has clamped down on athletics—and football in particular—over concerns about maintaining the league’s ideal of the student-athlete. Recruiting limits were sliced last spring by the presidents of the Ivy League schools. Coaching staffs were...
Given the specter of agents and uncertainty about their motives, Morris has turned to Kacyvenski and Nowinski for advice. And it’s not just the successful pros who advise Morris about how to run the gauntlet. Terrence Patterson ’00 was Harvard’s primary pre-Morris receiver, and has seen his protegé take an axe to his receiving records. Patterson, who worked out briefly for the NFL before winding up with a corporate job in the Walt Disney Company, never garnered the hype that surrounds Morris now, but he says that what chatter...
...Leverett House, the cons of evaluating the tutors would outweigh the pros. In families you don’t fill out forms rating each other,” she said...
Playwright David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly) was one of many Asian Americans with mixed feelings about the 1958 show's cliched and old-fashioned portrayal of Chinese immigrants in the U.S. But he's the one who decided to do something about it. Working with seasoned Broadway pros and watched over by the guardians of the Rodgers and Hammerstein canon, he totally rewrote the musical's book. Characters were changed, songs were rearranged (one, The Other Generation, was dropped), and more historical context was added. "It was an opportunity," says Hwang, "to do my own story about Chinese immigration...
...those who dream of cooking like the pros, spending a week in a continuing-education program at the CIA provides a unique travel and learning experience without having to enroll full time in cooking school. "These are not people who want to sit on a beach. They want to know that they've created something by the end of the day," says Mark Erickson, master chef and vice president for continuing education...