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Jackie Robinson had to be bigger than life. He had to be bigger than the Brooklyn teammates who got up a petition to keep him off the ball club, bigger than the pitchers who threw at him or the base runners who dug their spikes into his shin, bigger than the bench jockeys who hollered for him to carry their bags and shine their shoes, bigger than the so-called fans who mocked him with mops on their heads and wrote him death threats...
...Your body hurts so bad after four years ofbasketball, it's nice to take a break and not haveyour shin splints hurt so bad you have to takefour ibuprofen," she says...
...also made special note of Shin Lin '99, who put on a conference for Chinese Americans, and Macarena M. Correa '00, for her work in Harvard's Latino community...
...Shin remembered his own birthday dinnercelebration as a first-year, when Jo had to leavethe restaurant before eating...
...When the rest of us were done and asked forthe check, we discovered that Chang had discreetlypaid for all of us," Shin wrote in an e-mailmessage. "Chang was truly a unique and specialhuman being. He will be sorely missed becausethere will never be anyone else like...