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...time, or merely the greatest quarterback of his generation. (I’m exaggerating. Kind of.) As I prepared to make the transition to college, it never occurred to me that my sports allegiances would be met with anything but support. Even the students from out of town, I reasoned, would no doubt adopt Boston teams as their secondary rooting interest after their own hometown squads. Surely you didn’t have to be from Boston to feel for the Red Sox and their mesmerizing curse storyline. Surely anyone could appreciate the Patriots...
...coursed through the red-clad crowd in the eighth inning, I glanced up and noticed a zero on the scoreboard. Boston starting pitcher Jon Lester was working on a no-hitter, and I knew what was to come—the Sox would not let me leave town without one last shot to the gut. As my camera’s battery wore down (no-hitters are something to be remembered, Sox or not), and we prepared for the crush that awaited us at the Green Line station, I was struck by the awful truth that I had spent four...
While to the myopic student, Harvard and the communities that surround it may seem to share little in terms of goals, motivations, and funding, this year has seen town and gown brought together in many ways and to mutually beneficial outcomes...
...Curtis Osborne, a small-time cocaine dealer and addict, killed two people in a dispute over $400. His crime revulsed the town of Griffin, Georgia, one measure of which was the bigoted remark a local inmate reported hearing at the jail: "That little nigger deserves the chair...
...Last month, he was part of a crew of 10 rodents that successfully sniffed out all the mines in fields totaling 130,000 square feet around the village of Macia in southern Mozambique. But today's exercise is only a practice run. A grassy field on the edge of town has been set up to resemble a real minefield ready to be cleared. Dozens of 100-square meter (1,076 square feet) plots are demarcated by markers and strings, red perimeters signify areas of dangers, while green marks the safe zones where the handlers stand, connected to their rats...