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Much of the Harvard community knows enough about football or basketball to enjoy a game, but the rules of, say, team sailing are not always obvious to a first-time spectator.
Rozelle shepherded the league from 12 teams to 28, turned it into a Sunday obsession and guided it to the preeminent position it still holds today -- the nation's No. 1 spectator sport.
In high school, I was never anxious about getting injured when I went to a soccer game. Barring any freak sideline collision, my metal folding chair was relatively safe from harm. I took my high school sports seriously; I posted the schedules for all the teams on my bulletin board...
The climactic meeting was on Saturday, July 20, at campaign headquarters, with Senators Abraham, Bennett and Connie Mack of Florida present and many other counselors, like Rumsfeld, participating by speakerphone. Dole this time "moved from interested spectator to clear participant," says Bennett. He and Burke are convinced that Dole decided...
When the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth in 1620, they became the first chapter in the Massachusetts story. Their descendants are farmers in the state's western meadows, computer technicians in Boston and fishermen in the seaports, and they share a reverence for history and local heroes--everyone from Nathaniel Hawthorne...