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While no one at Harvard has participated in a game of this magnitude, Penn has been no stranger to big games under Coach Al Bagnoli. Under him, the Quakers beat Cornell last year in a game that determined the league championship, and Penn prevailed in the last late-season meeting of unbeaten Ivy teams, defeating Princeton...
...Cavanaugh family is no stranger to Harvard hockey. Tom’s father Joe ’71 and uncle Dave ’72 both skated for the Crimson. Joe Cavanaugh—a two-time All-American—was one of the best ever to play Harvard hockey...
...suicide bombers have set themselves outside of contracts. They no longer need guarantees of security. Instead they use as tools of war the bonds of trust that allow society to function—the trust that a stranger is not trying to kill us whenever we board an airplane or open our mail. We can improve our airport security and watch our toxic waste trucks, but we can never think hard enough to imagine everything a bin Laden could imagine—like attacking the Pentagon with boxcutters. And no matter how many armed guards we post, they only work...
Marah has had her share of novel motorcycling experiences. While traveling through Germany this past summer as a research writer for Let’s Go, Marah rode a bright red motorcycle thanks to the kindness of a stranger. She met a man on the street who offered without any hesitation to loan his bike to her free of charge as she completed her itinerary. “I’ve decided he was an angel. He made my life so much easier,” she says. And in the upcoming weeks, Marah plans to take...
...course, asking to see students’ IDs before you swipe them in seems like a prudent thing to do. Why would I want to allow a stranger into my House or dorm, someone who could harm me or my neighbors? We don’t push the uncomfortable demand—we are often on the other side of the situation, trying to get in. Instead, we let almost anyone in, assuming that they are a Harvard student from another dorm...