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Greeley, a four-time All-American soccer player, quietly emerged as the key cog on this year's Harvard team, which compiled a 6-0 Ivy mark for the second consecutive year...
...become the main cog on back-to-back teams that are considered among the finest in Harvard's not-so-illustrious history...
...around town was not far off the mark when I met Brezhnev while working on President de Gaulle's visit to Moscow in June 1966. For a long time after World War II, De Gaulle was portrayed by students at the Institute of International Relations as a chicken-brained cog in the military wheel, with pompous ambitions and fascistic dictatorial tendencies. Top political people regularly disparaged him, calling him a "long-nosed frog's legs." But now he was paying an official visit to Moscow, and I was asked to help in preparations...
Fortunately, the question is not an overly difficult one. Academics must not be considered a haven from the system, mystically exempt from the forces of politics, economics and society. Harvard is a shiny cog, but it is a cog nonetheless. If it acts unjustly, it is hypocritical and foolish to defend it on grounds of some superior, ubermensch morality...
...look at him as the cog of the front five," explains junior linebacker Brent Wilkinson. "With his experience, the linesmen look to him for guidance...