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...Tokyo. I was more than a little overzealous, but my requests turned up little. My survey yielded a suggestion to find “real soba, real udon, real ramen,” (a pointer as specific as “find a real hot dog in New York??) and an arrow in my journal pointing to Osaki, a small district in western Tokyo where the best ramen bar supposedly existed. The only concrete destination on my itinerary was Tsukiji fish market, but the Japanese delegates hadn’t scheduled a visit until the last...
Growing up in Farmington, Conn., Harvard starting pitcher Shawn Haviland watched his favorite team, the New York Yankees, collect a handful of championships in the late ‘90s. Like any young fan, he idolized Derek Jeter, New York??s popular shortstop. So imagine Haviland’s attempt to play it cool when the Yankee captain approached him in the weight room of their training facility in Tampa, Fla., and introduced himself. “I just started laughing hysterically,” the senior righthander remembers. “I said...
...trust him, and with good reason—his two-facedness insults their intelligence. Without their support, Spitzer would have had little hope of passing legislation. Just as stagnancy stalled the federal government after Bill Clinton’s sex scandal in the late nineties, so too would New York??s government have been rife with contention should he have remained governor The public outcry over Spitzer’s transgression rightly stems from the fact that not only were his actions illegal, but they were also treacherous. His constituency’s feeling of betrayal is made...
...upscale Washington prostitution ring. Spitzer’s downfall is particularly “tragic” in the Greek sense of the word: His meteoric rise to power closely mirrored Sarkozy’s. Existentially pugnacious, detested and admired at once, Spitzer paid his dues as New York??s Attorney General, where he dazzled with his unflinching resolve to take on Wall Street corruption and white-collar crime. He won himself a fair number of enemies but even more supporters; they catapulted him to the governorship and placed him among the Democratic Party’s most...
...YORK??Fundamentals proved to be the the downfall for the Harvard men’s basketball team on a night where the shots weren’t falling and the bigs weren’t blocking...