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...gave him 1,042 points for his career, good for 21st on the Crimson list. Now, however, that career is over. After the game, Cusworth sat for the last time in front of his locker, its contents packed into a gym bag open at his feet, and faced the prospect of leaving school, and his teammates, to begin preparing in earnest for a future in professional basketball. “Putting the nametag in this bag is probably one of the hardest things I’ve done since I’ve been here,” Cusworth said...
...Princeton in the league’s best-of-three series that determined which squad received the NCAA berth. Harvard returns 22 letterwinners from last season, including junior Steffan Wilson, whom Baseball America named as the Ancient Eight’s preseason player of the year and top professional prospect. Wilson, who batted .331 with 17 doubles, six home runs, and 43 RBI’s in 2006, has received both honors the last two seasons. Juniors Shawn Haviland and Matt Vance were chosen as members of the preseason all-conference team. Haviland was last season?...
...ultimate irony in this unsettled season in the Federal City is that Sam Nunn has probably gained more ground as a presidential prospect during this crisis than any other Democrat. He had a long way to go, since he is virtually unrecognized in the country, but achieving honorable stature in the power plays along the Potomac does finally seep into the national consciousness...
Last week, only two days after the conference issued a 33-page proposal for constitutional reforms, the prospect of change received a crushing blow. Stoffel Botha, Natal's ruling National Party boss, rejected the reforms, saying they failed to protect Natal's whites from "domination" by blacks. The last, best hope seemed destined to meet the same fate as so many other attempts to achieve racial harmony. The white opposition Progressive Federal Party, which had participated in the conference, termed the rejection "a reaction from bigots who seem to have a death wish for South Africa...
...Looking back at the last open G.O.P. race, over a year and half out from Election Day, the results are less shocking than the prospect of a Lieberman-Gephardt ticket, but they do tend to support the hypothesis that early polls aren't so much even popularity contests as trivia quizzes (The question being, "Have you ever heard of this person before...