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When John Winthrop delivered this sermon in 1630, Vowell said, he wanted to remind America that, “The eyes of the world are upon us and we could fail...
...Apparently this was enough to remind Harvard coach Tim Murphy that Ho, a guy with a 4.8 career yards per carry average, was pretty good at what he did before he got wiped off the depth chart. In danger of becoming known solely as that guy on the team with the same name as the 15th Century Chinese explorer from your AP World History class, Ho got the nod last Saturday against Lafayette...
...makes his work approach the truth. The truth can come out in surprising metaphors—the French writer Celine “shocks us out of the familiar by likening rush hour in Paris to catastrophe”—or with details and characters that remind us of our surroundings. It’s an insightful recipe for literature, enchanting in its simplicity.Wood is both a critic and a professor, and it shows: his prose, easy and approachable, reads like the transcript of an English class held around a pot of hot cocoa in Lamont Cafe...
...well-known among baby boomers, the legend of Davis is largely unknown to younger sports fans. If nothing else, “The Express” should familiarize another generation with Davis’s accomplishments. The problem, however, is that the film seems all too comfortable simply to remind us that Ernie Davis was quite a fellow—and in this respect it accomplishes little more than a well-written magazine piece. Fleder and Leavitt conspire to consolidate a vast range of sports movie tropes into a single film. The broad template is that of a single hero...
...Inzer says parents are consulting financial aid counselors earlier in the college-search season than ever before. "I think now people are saying, 'This is what we can afford, so before you get your hopes set on X College, let's talk to them,'" she says. "We need to remind them how important education is as an investment...