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...relationship, they talked about their goals in life and realized the many similarities. He proposed on the Weeks Footbridge a little more than three years after they met. After their Cambridge wedding, the pair will live together in Pennsylvania. (The groom is from Ohio and the bride from Virginia.) Hetrick already works for Merck Pharmaceuticals and Vittori will begin a master’s degree program at Lehigh University. Hetrick said he “probably logged 20,000 miles” on his car this year shuttling between Pennsylvania and Cambridge, but Vittori said the distance wasn?...
...choose a college based solely on its sports teams, he told me—a seemingly ridiculous suggestion given the magnanimity of my decision.But my dad had ample reason to be skeptical. Tucked away with information about Harvard were pamphlets from Duke, Stanford, Michigan, Wisconsin, Virginia, and Oklahoma, the other schools to which I sent applications. His daughter, who had filled out March Madness brackets long before she knew how to spell “Mississippi” or “Valparaiso” (but who picked Valpo over Ole Miss in a 13-over-4 stunner...
...varsity followed suit with the victory but bested the Midwestern visitor by only one second. The novice eight was dominant for a second time, enjoying an 11-second lead over second place.The next weekend, the heavyweights travelled to the Housatonic River to face Ivy rival Yale and southern powerhouse Virginia. In tough conditions, The Black and White proved its mettle by beating then-No. 3 Virginia in both the first and second varsity eights and beating both Yale and Virginia in the novice eight. The comeback in the first varsity over the Cavaliers was epic and paved the road...
...season. The Crimson, driven by solid play across the board, brought home the Ivy League Championship with a perfect 7-0 record and notched a 15-7 record overall. Even in its losses, No. 51 Harvard put up impressive fights against top-flight teams such as then-No. 1 Virginia, then-No. 13 Pepperdine, then-No. 8 Michigan, and especially against then-No. 17 Texas Tech in the Crimson’s first NCAA tournament in four years. The squad’s grueling slate before Ivy League play began certainly left Harvard prepared to face its less challenging conference...
...will need to win in the fall. Back in 2004, Bush built a massive top-down hierarchy that brought a corporate efficiency to politics. The McCain model, by contrast, has been designed to reflect McCain's insurgent personality. While the Bush campaign channeled all decision-making through its northern Virginia headquarters, the McCain campaign has established a decentralized network of 11 "regional campaign managers," who will separately direct much of the campaign in their parts of the country. The goal is to save money, but no one knows if it will work. Veterans of Bush's 2004 incumbent juggernaut...