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...Kennedy '91 was an all-state wrestler three times at his high school in Kenney Lake, but he was forced to give the sport up this year. "I was failing Spanish," he says. "Lots of people in my class have had three or four years [of the language], but you know, my school wasn't accredited or anything...
There was just one problem. The Crimson couldn't produce a wrestler for the 134-lb. weight class. If it couldn't, MIT would receive five points for the forfeit, two more than it would if a Harvard had simply lost the match...
...performer, and, like Reagan, to whom he bears some unexpected resemblances, he is a master at wrapping a deeply felt conviction inside a one-liner. And he is bad at firing anyone. His receptiveness to anybody who will join him can be ludicrous, as when he took a wrestler named "Silo Sam," who claims to be seven-foot-seven, along on several stops the day after he met him, accepting Silo's public endorsement at a Teamsters' meeting, along with Billy Carter's, as a sign of his support from "ordinary people...
Hill became the first wrestler from an Ivy League school to win two consecutive EIWA championships since Pat Welch of Cornell captured the 150-pound titles in 1984 and 1985. Harvard had a good showing, with Captain Peter Holmes finishing in fourth place, while Andy Konovalchik placed fifth. Holmes also made first team All-Ivy. while Konovalchik was named Honorable Mention...
...dark side of William Buckley may be Morton Downey Jr., a sneering mud wrestler who runs a nightly talk show out of New Jersey. That, of course, is not journalism. But otherwise respectable reporters and commentators come close sometimes to the circus form of opinion slinging. Consider the McLaughlin Group, presided over by the amiably thunder-browed ex-Jesuit John McLaughlin, who once worked as a speechwriter in Richard Nixon's White House. The McLaughlin Group is great fun, but brawly -- alive with spitballs, hoots of derision, melodramatic postures, overshouts...