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...Harvard wobbled out of the weekend reeling, dropping a 6-2 decision to the Elis in the dreaded Yale Whale November 10 and limping to a 3-3 draw against the Bruins in Providence, R.I., the next night...
...which jarring and inapposite piece of his biography best begins to explain him: That he is a former SDS organizer who is building a Ritz-Carlton hotel? Or that he is a developer whose fondest wish is to run away with Sea Shepherd, a Greenpeace splinter group, and ram whale ships? Perhaps that he is a 36-year-old Massachusetts- born Sikh of French-Canadian extraction, in a turban and a Ralph Lauren polo shirt? Or that he read about this 102-acre property one Sunday in 1986 and bought it on a hunch three days later for $17.25 million...
Over the years, marine mammals have become big box office. Around the U.S., amusement parks and aquariums pack spectators into dolphin and killer-whale shows. Companies have organized whale-watching voyages and party-boat trips to feed wild dolphins. One promoter has even proposed an underwater birthing facility where dolphins would serve as "midwives" for human deliveries...
These efforts, however, have not silenced critics. Says Ben White of the activist group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, whose members take to the seas to disrupt whale and dolphin captures: "Yes, captive dolphins educate, but it's bad education. It tells people it is O.K. to keep these animals and make them do tricks...
...freshman [during the 1987-'88 season], we went down there and we won. Then, I didn't know any better."--Harvard men's hockey forward Peter Ciavaglia before the Crimson's season-opening game against Yale Friday at Ingalls Rink in New Haven. The curse of The Whale help up, as the Elis overcame a 2-0 deficit and thumped the Crimson...