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...fathers are paying him to help keep them from fulfilling that stereotype. Dubin, a p.r. executive and Little League coach, pairs three rookies with three dads willing to hand over their babies for training purposes. Support the head, the instruction begins. Act naturally because babies can smell fear. Roll them over and rub their backs if they start to cry. "You'll probably hold the baby differently from your wife. That's O. K.," Dubin says. "But this will be the beginning of, 'Why are you doing it that way?'" he warns. "Tell your wife, 'We're going...
Apportioning credit for the invention of rock 'n' roll among Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and a few other pioneers has always been a challenge. Suffice it to say that Bo Diddley, who died at 79 in his home in Archer, Fla., never thought he got enough--and he was right...
Diddley also gave birth to a rock-'n'-roll persona--the baaaad man. "I walk 47 miles of barbed wire. I use a cobra snake for a necktie," he sang on Who Do You Love. Even though Diddley could sound tough, he was funnier than his peers and more progressive too, employing a series of female musicians at a time when rock was predominantly male. Despite his influence on the Rolling Stones and the Clash, Diddley was rarely credited as one of rock 'n' roll's creators--or paid like one--a fact, he admitted, that made him bitter...
...part of a season that would vault him into the Harvard record books and make him one of Harvard’s 11 All-Ivy selections as well as one of two Ivy players selected as an All-American.Whether it was inevitable or something just clicked, the Crimson started to roll after the tough start. Big wins against Cornell at an ever-unpredictable Schoellkopf Field—where the team suffered a surprising 27-13 setback in its last visit in 2005—and at home against Lafayette were flanked by three more victories against Princeton, Dartmouth, and Columbia...
...with Tiong finishing the year ranked fifth and Mashruwala seventh. Tiong was also voted Ivy League Rookie of the Year. Despite the strong start, the early victories came against mostly second-tier opponents, and it wasn’t until February and March that the true tests began to roll in with matches against the nation’s top teams. Although Balsekar returned to boost the lineup in the new year, the team was unable to match its early season success. During the first two weeks of February, the Crimson battled No. 1 Penn, No. 2 Princeton...