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...Numbers bear witness. Harvard lost eight games all season. Harvard also lost eight games by one goal. Go figure...
...league. The team went an unexceptional 6-7-1 last season and lost several key players to graduation, giving cause for many to expect next to nothing from it this season. But rather than lament, cry or even shrug off these low expectations, the team seems to bear them gladly. In fact, it seems to be thriving on them...
Along with the creeds, you will gradually learn the names and locations of most of the buildings on campus. There will be quizzes on this stuff later in the Yard, conducted by dozens of tourists. Grin and bear...
...their homes in Havana and its environs, it is mainly the economic deprivations of the past four that have shaken their faith and their pride. Every Cuban must work out his own calculation for the moment when devotion turns to desperation, when the hardships become too much to bear, when the natural desire to stay is overpowered by the need to go. This summer that moment came for thousands -- especially the young -- not so much because the hardships have grown worse but because they seem to have no end. People go when they have no future and no hope...
This week the Malecon belongs to the balseros. But the weather is not on their side. Juan, 20, stands knee-deep in the swelling surf. Despite cheers from the crowd above, he is finding it impossible to lash his inner tubes to the plywood he hopes will bear him away. The waves are too high; lightning flashes and a pelting rain begins. Does it matter whether he ends up in Miami or only Guantanamo? "Who cares?" he asks. "So long as it's out of here." He has no job, no money, no prospects, he says; he must escape...