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...They're like us in the sense that they have a very solid defense--they have a lot of there top athletes in halfback and fullback positions--and they have a little bit of trouble scoring goals," he said. "Like us, they definitely are working on improving their offensive punch...
Women may not show up on the Porcellian's punch list this week, but they have broken through the gender barrier in one overwhelmingly male activity at Harvard: boxing...
...Boom Boom" Werthman: Columbia is so thin at fullback, Tellier turned to his superstar middle linebacker to add some punch to the backfield. Thus, Des Werthman (10 tackles, two assists and a forced fumble against Harvard) found himself with the ball in goal line situations...
Once Sulzberger became deputy publisher in 1988, he felt for the first time "the job was mine to lose." His confidence increased, and the Lettermanesque wise-guy side of his personality receded. Reporters noticed a deeper affection growing between him and his father, "Punch" Sulzberger. One editor observed, "Arthur took on some of Punch's winning characteristics -- his self-deprecating humor, his listening rather than talking." (He did not find it humorous, however, when people tried to stick him with the obvious diminutive "Pinch.") When, just after being named publisher, he said that it gave him comfort to know that...
...Sulzberger is 40 going on 60 one minute, he can be irrepressibly coltish the next, leaping out of his chair in his 11th-floor office with its view of Broadway on the slightest pretext: checking with his secretary on whether he calls his father "Dad," "Punch" or "the chairman" (in public, it's "the chairman"); grabbing a book by a management guru he admires; pointing out the stand-up desk where he reads the paper at 7 each morning. At a birthday party at the 300-acre family estate in Connecticut (where the family dogs have their own memorial park...