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...applaud Clinton and his allies for working to get sugar out of our schools. But as a parent who has served sodas and other treats to my kids and their teammates following baseball, basketball and soccer games, I can tell you that the blame for childhood obesity resides not in our vending machines but in ourselves. David Housewright Roseville, Minnesota...
...voted to make the color of Eliot’s scarves the official color of the university—crimson. These two snippets of Harvard mythology may in fact be true, but when Harvard narrates the history of its colors, it neglects an important fact that Fordham relishes in telling. Magenta was the original color of both Fordham and Harvard, and while each school wanted the exclusive use of the color, neither would relinquish using it. The schools were also archrivals at the time, and settled their dispute over a series of baseball games. Though Fordham won the series, Harvard...
...draw families back into the schools. Sybil Knight, the principal of the system’s only high school, the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, summed up the feelings of most participants toward the end, saying, “We don’t need an exact number to tell us about declining enrollment. The numbers are down and we’ve got to do something about it.”—Staff writer Paras D. Bhayani can be reached at pbhayani@fas.harvard.edu...
...PAID TO DO THIS?’Cuse arrived at Harvard from the Putney School in Vermont as a pre-med, but he soon realized his calling was elsewhere.“I had gone to this boarding school where biology consisted of being able to tell the difference between a Black Birch and a Staghorn Sumac,” he says. “And I found myself in introductory chemistry with 150 wonks from around the country who had already taken the class.”Cuse realized medicine was not for him when, his uncle?...
...there’s one thing sportswriters love more than statistics, it’s proclaiming that statistics don’t tell the whole story.This makes for an easy article, by the way, especially when it’s on a topic you’ve covered to death. For a player profile, it’s practically foolproof. You rattle off the player’s statistics, catalog all their accomplishments, and then, with your reader blinded by the brilliance, denounce it all as mere numbers. You say digits can’t convey true grit, or heart...