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...sort of primal, universal passion as soccer. During the World Cup, the matches of the national football teams impose television schedules on the rhythm of life. Last year I attended a dinner for leading members of the British establishment and distinguished guests from all over the world at the staid Spencer House in London. The hosts had the bad luck to have chosen the night of the match between England and Argentina--always a blood feud, compounded on this occasion by the memory of the Falklands crisis. The impeccable audience (or at least enough of it to influence the hosts...
Although the outfits may have been staid, the affair was meant to be entertaining...
Harvard is a staid school and football is a staid sport...
Harvard is a staid school and football is a staid sport...
...behalf of the students of Eliot House, we would like to take issue with Melissa Crocker's unfair characterization of last week's Eliot House Auction as a "rather staid" affair, reminiscent of our "uppercrust" past (Opinion, April...