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Currently, having just turned 71, Alfaro continues to write every day and is in the midst of her latest play about an Asian-American professor at Harvard on the cusp of old age. “When you write, everything in your life falls through the filter of the play. Sometimes it’s hard [to] extricate yourself,” Alfaro said...
...spry 59, William F. Lee ’72, who still runs daily and plays soccer on the weekends, promises to inject a measure of youth into the antiquated body—its members’ average age is 68, meaning the average fellow was born in the midst of World War II and qualifies for Medicare...
...course was offered—an indication of how the University, even in the midst of the greatest economic downturn since the Great Depression, has reaffirmed its commitment to its smaller departments...
...over Cornell, Princeton, Dartmouth, and Columbia by at least 18 points, Harvard entered its mid-November matchup with undefeated Penn knowing that the league title rested on the outcome. But just as the pressure mounted for the Crimson, so too did the air pressure at Harvard Stadium. In the midst of a driving rainstorm that soaked the field, the Crimson could not find its footing against a nationally-recognized Quaker defense. Harvard fell, 17-7, to Penn (8-2, 7-0), essentially conceding the Ivy crown...
...possibility of a proposal was not absent from her mind, Pope said. Friends had wondered whether the Parisian visit might not make a fine occasion for her boyfriend of nearly six years, Michael P. Silvestri ’10, to pose the question. But in the midst of a magical night, she urged herself to stay grounded. “He asked me to sit on his knee and he can’t get on one knee if I’m sitting on his knee, so there’s no way he’s going...