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...Hayek won Harvard’s Unsung Hero Award, while Rechul received the Sullivan Award, presented to the wrestler who has given the most to the program throughout his career. They led the team not only through their guidance but also by example. In their final tournaments, they both demonstrated the ability to bounce back after losses...
...unsung hero of the 1990s economic boom was the continuous business traveler, the frenzied foot soldier of the New Economy. Hopping from Dallas to Dulles, he lived a never-ending parade of airline lounges, airport bars and expense-account meals in strange cities. But for those who missed the Internet boom and its resplendent wonders, this one-part exciting and two-parts vertiginous lifestyle has been conveniently encapsulated at the Blue Room. This bustling Kendall Square restaurant is just two T stops away, but with an unremarkable décor and unplaceable cuisine, it seems a faceless world unto itself...
...talking pictures, 24 years earlier. (That would be like doing a retro-musical today based on the songs and movies of 1978. Shall we have a disco version of "Smokey and the Bandit"?) Kelly, Reynolds, Donald O?Connor and Jean Hagen make for a wonderfully comic quartet. And the unsung star was Roger Edens, who took a sheaf of 20s and 30s songs by Herb Nacio Brown and Arthur Freed (producer of this film and most of Kelly?s other musicals) and soldered them into a perkily coherent score...
...Please Let Me Come Back to You" (1955), by Billy Waring, on "Unsung Irving Berlin." If ever a "new" Berlin song were to hit the charts, it'd be this country-style waltz. Not much content to the lyric, but a rolling melody that instantly insinuates itself in the listener's mind; I believe that's why it's called a "hook." Paging Alan Jackson...
...displayed a crucial steadying hand during his four years as Chief Executive while the toddling Republic stretched beyond baby steps. Filled with fascinating people, momentous events, shrewd insights and excerpts from letters between Adams and his wife Abigail, John Adams is a marvelous singing of a hero historically unsung...