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...graduate of the college, Haggerty immediately made the transition from athlete (he had three NCAA qualifying times in the 440-yard hurdles as an undergraduate) to assistant coach, a position he held for the three years following commencement. The next decade involved a long stint as a high school teacher, with a few years in and out of Harvard mixed in. Eventually, in 1982, Haggerty took over as head coach of both the men’s and women’s track and cross-country programs. In doing so, he became the first head coach of both the men?...
...learning activity here,” Sarah Miller says. “Almost all classes have an optional additional class...whether extra section...or lunch with the professor.”KEEPING BUSYTheir status as unanticipated visitors left the Tulane students without many extracurricular options. With such a short stint at the College, there was little time to become involved in the activities that, for Harvard students, often define the college experience.Ordoyne was one exception: he petitioned his way into a special seat on the Lowell House Committee and even looked into joining the Undergraduate Council during his four months...
...Peng's teammates, though, her previous stint in America is a source of envy. "I wish I could train with the world's best, but I'm too old now," says Yan, 21. "Maybe the next generation of Chinese tennis players can do that." Teammate Zheng, who jokes that she prefers singles tennis to doubles competition because it's more lucrative, is more practical. "In the U.S. you can buy so many nice clothes," she says. "There's just a lot more choice there." Even after all these years, sometimes it's still about the clothes...
...story isn't going to hurt me, right? So I clicked on the piece, only to find that it was actually about Lindsay Lohan, the comely American teen star of Mean Girls. Lohan has told Vanity Fair that she had used drugs "a little," did a two-week hospital stint, and battled bulimia: "I was making myself sick." Lohan, who wrote a song in a Paris hotel room about her struggles, clearly believes in the power of confession, calling it "a therapy." Funny - Kennedy had said the same thing at his tell-all press conference: "[T]his admission today comes...
...just been published in English for the first time. Hwang, one of South Korea's most famous writers, spent five years in prison for a 1989 trip to Pyongyang, flouting a ban on unauthorized contact with the North. He was pardoned by President Kim Dae Jung, but a stint in jail clearly failed to dent his taste for controversy. The Guest, the title of which is a translation of the Korean term for the imported disease of smallpox, describes what Hwang sees as the pernicious influence of "cultural imperialism" on Korea. He focuses on a massacre that took place...