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...went to Vietnam, where he had been drafted to serve as a hospital corpsman in the Navy. As a relief from what he describes as "M*A*S*H without the jokes and pretty women," Venter, with the help of some Marines on China Beach, taught himself to sail 19-ft. (5.8 m) sailboats known as Lightnings. "When you're in the middle of a war, freedom is something you think a lot about," he says. "I always had a dream of sailing around the world...
...there, his progress through the newspaper world of New Zealand and Australia was buccaneering: sleeping rough on Queensland's Gold Coast after turning up drunk and late for a job on the Courier-Mail; moving in, at the age of 19, with a thirtyish American stripper named Melodie ("She taught me a lot, and it wasn't just how to carry a tune"); and writing for publications too poor to pay him anything besides meals and flagons of cheap wine. He eventually began earning notice as a crime reporter on Sydney's Daily Telegraph, but it was only when...
...course, things will surely turn out differently than the rough sketch above. And if this primary season has already taught us anything, it's that there's no way to predict how millions of voters will behave. "A big split probably won't happen," said a top delegate hunter for one of the G.O.P. candidates. "Momentum has always kicked in before. But the possibility is there this time like it has never been there before...
...love of science which is what legacy is all about.” Robert J. D’Amato, an associate professor of ophthalmology, was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Folkman Laboratories and saw Folkman as both a father and a colleague. “He taught me always to return patients’ calls and find some way to give them hope,” D’Amato said in a written statement to The Crimson. “He was a man who put his patients first and used the laboratory as a weapon for them...
...it’s been tough slogging, and without “The Great Debaters” to tide us over Harvard would be in real trouble of becoming—forgive me—just another university. ’Round these parts, we’re taught never to settle for being below the fold, and that true greatness requires a well-timed announcement. Spare the press release, however, and you’ll spoil the whole damned week.Adam Goldenberg ’08 is a social studies concentrator in Winthrop House. His column appears regularly...