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...AIMEE BENDER...
...digits; a bullpen that can hold a lead and a starting five with two aces. Clement has been a nice surprise, Wells has had his moments as has Arroyo, Wakefield?s been characteristically gutsy and Miller has shown that, when he regains full strength, he?ll be throwing a bender to be reckoned with. Damon certainly hasn?t let celebrity or wedded bliss go to his head (well, maybe he has, but he?s still playing great, turning in a salary-drive year for the ages). Tek, Trot, Manny, David: What more can you say? Bellhorn . . . well, Bellhorn...
...days used to be mostly an act of practical ritual (Jack Dempsey never shaved on the day of a fight) or of casual defiance, like the raggedness of the 1950s beats. Actors showed stubble in movies only when their characters had been through the wringer or on a bender; even rebels like Brando, Dean and Clift were smooth cheeked. But when Clint Eastwood rode through those Italian westerns in the '60s, a meaner, more maverick kind of frontier hero was born, an amusingly amoral gunslinger whose standard equipment was a Colt Peacemaker, a cheroot, a sarape and a five...
Wilbur J. Bender ’27, then-dean of admissions, told The Crimson on Dec. 11, 1954 that the College’s first responsibility was “to maintain the highest level of liberal education...even more so because of the threat of a serious watering-down of liberal education...
...Though Bender professed himself willing to brainstorm other solutions, he maintained that the College should not expand, noting that keeping acceptances constant in the face of an increased number of applications would allow Harvard to achieve greater selectivity...