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Vick may have great athletic talent, but to be a quarterback, he must also have the ability to lead. I cannot imagine any coach wanting someone as obviously troubled as Vick to fill the spot at the head of a team. No truly great quarterback needs to torture innocent creatures to prove that he has the guts to go into the arena. Betsy Kraemer, TAYLORSVILLE, CALIF...
Rebuilding requires patience, and thanks to depth of its sophomore talent, the Harvard men’s golf team finally saw a payoff for last season’s rebuilding with a strong finish at the season-opening Mid-Pines Intercollegiate.Competing in a crowded thirteen-team field in Southern Pines, N.C., the Crimson managed a fourth-place finish by posting a three-round team score of 870. Harvard teed off at the Mid Pines Inn and Golf Club looking to build on a strong finish last season as the then-freshmen gained valuable playing experience.Though East Carolina took...
...great fan of chess," Pichuzkin told the police as he handed over his diary to the police. Indeed, his neighbors and friends confirm he was good at resolving problems on a chessboard, a talent to boast about of in chess-mad Russia. But he turned into bloodsport what a Nabokov character saw as an existential revelation. In The Defense the novelist wrote of one chess-obsessed character's epiphany: "...he had seen something unbearably awesome, the full horror of the abysmal depths of chess. He glanced at the chessboard and his brain wilted from hitherto unprecedented weariness. But the chessmen...
...deep and meaningful partnership between Harvard and our community fall on deaf ears. But Bill Gates must have had something different in mind when he told the Harvard family, “When you consider what those of us here in this Yard have been given—in talent, privilege, and opportunity—there is almost no limit to what the world has a right to expect from...
...TIFF. (It ends tomorrow, with the announcement of its Golden Lion prizes.) The scheduling allows festival director Marco Mueller to present the world premieres of many films that will be hot items in Toronto. That primacy makes Venice an important stop on the prestige-movie express for A-list talent wooing international critical opinion - in Europe and Asia. If the festival doesn't register on this continent, it's only because Americans don't much care about, or even notice, what happens first somewhere else...