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It’s simply not reasonable to expect either recruited athletes or their non-athlete classmates to pretend they don’t know about the very different ways they arrived at Harvard. If Lewis wants these two groups to respect each other, he must reckon with the College’s own role in fostering, through its parallel admissions tracks, a climate in which athletes and non-athletes often do not think of one another as genuine peers. It is those admissions practices, far more than any lingering fondness for 19th-century British notions about amateurism, which perpetuate...
Despite being only a sophomore, Ungar has become a force to reckon with in the men’s epee event...
...just getting better every single week,” Cohen said. “Athletically he’s playing way above his level and he’s getting his legs under him. He’s going to be a force to reckon with later in the season...
...CHEEKS Parents who want to keep their kids on the straight and narrow just got some support. According to a study published in the British Medical Journal last week, teenagers who French kiss with multiple partners quadruple their risk of catching meningitis. But we guess that most youngsters will reckon the odds worthwhile...
...woman who had shaken conventional wisdom in one of the continent's most socially conservative Roman Catholic countries, which only recently legalized divorce: Bachelet is a 54-year-old physician, an agnostic, a socialist and a single mother of three. Her candidacy also offered the electorate an opportunity to reckon with the trauma of the 17-year dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, which ended in 1990. The president-elect's father had been an Air Force general who died in the hands of Pinochet's security forces, while Bachelet herself and her mother had also been held in torture centers...