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...don’t have tickets, find a TV or radio and tune in. Even if you can’t cheer on the Crimson in person, choosing to experience the game at all will help you recognize a great Harvard tradition and feel something of the intensity which Harvard’s players bring to the tournament each and every year...
...nature of final clubs in the Harvard landscape remains profoundly sexist. It is a problem that few of our institutional peers share: Yale’s secret societies and Princeton’s eating clubs are now co-ed. The situation at Harvard marks a terrible and regressive tune in an academic institution that otherwise strives for progressivism. Unfortunately, correcting this problem seems to be a futile hope. Even in scenarios in which members of male final clubs hope to make their organizations co-ed, stumbling blocks like grad boards (bodies of club graduates who oversee club activities and finances...
More success for the Gucci brand had seemed unimaginable when Ford stepped down as creative director four years ago. Ford transformed the posh but petrified label into a global megabrand, resurrecting the company to the tune of $1.8 billion (from $500 million) and ushering in an era of stone-cold sexiness. Gucci's image, not to mention its stock price, soared. But in late 2004, Ford left the company abruptly after clashing with management. The Gucci Group hired three designers to replace him; two seasons later, the then 33-year-old Giannini?who had been plucked from Fendi by Ford...
...pushed ourselves.” The effort of the Harvard swimmers and divers was obvious in the scoring of the meets, and will hopefully carry through to next weekend’s combined contest against Princeton and Yale. “[This weekend] was a little bit of a tune-up course,” said Wollner. “It was a good way to prepare for this weekend’s big battle, and it was a little bit of a confidence booster too.” HARVARD 176, BU 120 Key performances from multiple athletes helped give...
...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 he went to Hong Kong in 1968, to take...