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...Group of Death any team could play solidly and still lose three games. Sven-G?ran Eriksson has England playing exceedingly well, including its historic 5-1 shellacking of Germany in qualifying. But England has a problem. Beyond Beckham and speed merchant Michael Owen, the team lacks world-class talent. Sweden, meanwhile, could be out of luck. It's a low-wattage squad that coach Tommy Soderberg says will rely on teamwork and spirit. "In Sweden we want a team that can work without a hierarchy, a team that is based on the dialogue between the players." This is easier when...
Tommy Barrett is a dreamy-eyed fifth-grader who lives with his parents, twin brothers, two cats and a turtle in San Jose, Calif., the heart of Silicon Valley. He's an honor-roll student who likes math and science and video games. He's also a world-class expert on Animorph and Transformer toys. "They're like cars and trains and animals that transform into robots or humans--I love them!" he shouts exuberantly...
...propose a different way for those critics, like Josefowitz, to consider the issue. Harvard athletes are Division I athletes. They are recruited by hundreds of schools, including the likes of Stanford, Berkeley, Rice, and Duke. At some point, a Harvard athlete decides that he or she values a world-class education, and athletics as a way to receive one. The athlete could easily accept that five-year full scholarship from Stanford, but she or he makes an enormous monetary sacrifice to attend Harvard instead. Harvard offers absolutely nothing to its athletes that it does not offer to other students. Athletes...
Boston plays host to some of the world’s best DJs fairly regularly: Paul van Dyk, Timo Maas, Carl Cox and Sasha & Digweed have all played venues on Lansdowne street in the past year or so. But while each of these world-class DJs has caused plenty of interest amongst Boston clubbers, most Harvard students couldn’t be more indifferent. Harvard seems to exemplify the stereotype of American attitudes towards clubbing, that clubs mainly serve as a vehicle for getting some action and to this end, hip hop is much more effective than techno...
...instant, a world-class high school recruit with major league aspirations was transformed into an inpatient at the Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary without his sight or the ability to walk...