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...walk from Hurlbut to the KSG tells only a small part of the story. Back then the Inn at Harvard was a Gulf gas station; the Holyoke Center was Dudley House for commuters; Hillel was squash courts. JFK Street was Boylston Street, with a Mobil station and Vespa dealer. A vast trolley yard stood where the KSG now stands, and Quincy was under construction. Radcliffe and Harvard shared only classes, and few extracurricular groups were co-ed. Two years after Brown v. Board of Education, we were almost entirely white, disproportionately preppies, and insensitive to both the discomfort...
...make them exert force at a distance from their bodies; fanning a blanket out over a bed, putting a child in a car seat, opening a window. There are, of course, some devoted athletes, who first complain, as Mr. Rumsfeld did, that the pain and weakness is affecting their squash or tennis game...
...home from the hospital the same day. Most patients are off pain medicines and back to work in two days. It's my favorite case and they're my happiest patients. They tell their friends that they're out of pain. More convincingly, they beat their friends at squash and tennis. This seems to be what gets people into my office and it's why arthroscopic cuff repairs are so "hot" right now - word of mouth referral. With all due respect to the medical marketing folks - it ain't them. I can't read a magazine, see a movie...
...doing it--can be immense. And it's not always clear if it's the parents, coaches or kids themselves who are pushing the hardest. "We have a culture that is tremendously out of balance, in which you have nothing but competition," says Brooke de Lench, a onetime squash and lacrosse player who wrote Home Team Advantage, a newly published advice book for moms who want to avoid the pitfalls of overly intense sports for their family. "Children need to be playing and having...
...have announced expanded financial-aid opportunities for low-income kids. But none of these élite private colleges have announced any diminution of the preferences they have for wealthy kids or legacies, and they're not willing to give up their preferences for athletes in élite sports like squash, sailing, polo and crew. The losers here are the middle-class kids. All they bring is brilliance, hard work and achievement. Apparently that's not enough...