Word: sport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...troubling, almost embarrassing, that Harvard fields a top-flight team in a professional sport. This is heresy, I know. But hear me out. I have my reasons, three of them...
Missing in all this repetition of the positive stereotype is any mention of contradictory information. I have yet to read about Harvard's recruiting and admissions practices for potential big-sport athletes. Is the rumor correct that these people get special treatment in Byerly Hall...
...moment, that role is claimed by Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, the popular leader of Nicaragua's Roman Catholic Church. The Sandinistas have tried to muffle Obando and his followers. Church bashing has become a favorite sport of the two official newspapers, and both Radio Catolica and the Catholic printing press have been shut down in recent months. Priests have been hauled in for interrogation and offered the option either to leave the country or to sign up with the army. Last January, after the Cardinal delivered a letter to the United Nations charging the Sandinistas with attempting to "neutralize...
...never really thought of becoming a baseball player," Blair says. "You can't be a great baseball player coming from Canada. I just played the sport because I liked it so much and I played hockey because I thought I had a chance of going somewhere...
...younger Blair's determination to concentrate on hockey for the future didn't mean his devotion to that sport grew any greater--or his devotion to baseball any smaller. "He was always busy....I wished he would sit down and watch hockey with me," Matthew Blair says...