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Richard Clasby ’54, a rare nine-time letter winner who played on the football team, described the differences between football now and football then. Clasby discussed the aggressive tactics involved in recruiting during the 1950s, when coaches were able to offer recruits money or even jobs for relatives...
This game should be as even as it gets, and the winner will walk away sitting in the driver’s seat of a car destined not only for the Ivy League Championship, but for the NCAA Tournament as well...
Jhumpa Lahiri is well known as the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for her debut short-story collection Interpreter of Maladies and her recent bestseller The Namesake. She sets her stories mainly in the Cambridge area and is one of literature’s most promising young talents. Her only competition might come from her co-reader Lan Samantha Chang, who has received lavish praise for her own debut work Hunger. 7 p.m. MIT, Rm. 10-250, 77 Mass. Ave., Cambridge...
Joseph Stiglitz will read from his new book, The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World’s Most Properous Decade, and shed some light on the collapse of one of the biggest economic explosions in history. The Nobel Prize winner appears as part of the Harvard Book Store Author Series. Free. 6 p.m. First Parish Church, 3 Church St., Cambridge...
Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison reads from her latest the day after it is released to the public as part of the Harvard Book Store Author Series. Love, which tells the story of the wealthy owner of Cosey’s Hotel and Resort and the many women whose lives he defines, is Morrison’s eighth novel. Free. 6 p.m., Fanueil Hall/Great Hall, Government Center, Boston...