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...impressions created by line and color. Often he began a picture with something like a realistic scene, then distilled it repeatedly. This is what happened with his magnificent Bathers by a River. When he started the large wall painting in 1909, it was a panorama of voluptuous women in bright colors. When he finished it seven years later, the women were angular and anonymous, the setting radically flattened, and the river had become another of those vertical black bands, with a stark white snake shooting upward along it like a bent poker...
Chet was also a key player behind three franchises that remain among the most popular in sports television--SportsCenter, the early-round coverage of the NCAA men's basketball tournament and the National Football League draft telecast. Along the way, he gave many young women and men a shot. He hired me at ESPN and my brother Bryant at NBC. These jobs were our first network career breaks...
...while Chet left ESPN in 1982 to become the founding commissioner of the short-lived United States Football League, he will forever be associated with the network he steered in its early years. My brother and I, and many other men and women, both on camera and behind the scenes, owe him our gratitude. And most important, so do sports fans...
...hard to find homeless men and women in Cambridge, as most Harvard students can attest. They sleep in front of the Coop and in Cambridge Common. They dot the stretch of Mass. Ave. in front of the yard and crowd Harvard Square. To some extent, the presence of homelessness and poverty in Cambridge is a far more jarring realization than elsewhere. Quite literally in the shadows of the world’s richest and most reputable university, human beings go hungry and live on the streets...
This stark contrast should serve as a call-to-action for all Harvard students. These men and women are a constant reminder of where we as a society have failed, and so we choose to look away. We all do. When an elderly man asks us for change outside CVS or Uno’s, we pretend not to hear, or stare blankly into space while quickly moving on our way. However, becoming habituated to homelessness is not strong; it is callous. This is not to say that we are obligated to give money to the homeless on a daily...