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BOSTON — Those who forget the past, it is said, are doomed to repeat it. And while the Crimson may have remembered its eight consecutive Beanpot opening-round losses all too well, that didn’t prevent history from repeating itself yet again. With the longest first-round losing streak in team history, Harvard turned to some outside help in an attempt to gain a mental edge. “As the time ticks away [in the season], you just try to stay positive,” captain Dylan Reese said. “We worked with...
...presidency, editorialists opinioned on the impossibility of one man holding the reins of so fractious an entity as the modern university. And as early as 1769, Edward Holyoke, Class of 1705, Harvard’s 11th President, and who next to Eliot served in the office longest, famously remarked on his deathbed, “If any man wishes to be humbled and mortified, let him become president of Harvard College.” And even Larry Summers has said on more than one occasion that Harvard was not ready for his kind of leadership. President Pusey was once asked...
...arose as the horses came charging to the turn for home in the 2006 Kentucky Derby. Lying dangerously close to a fiery pace, the colt rushed to the lead and--following one of the fastest final quarter miles in Derby history--won the Roses by nearly seven lengths, the longest Derby victory margin in 60 years. I had witnessed every Derby but one since 1972, and Barbaro struck me--for his sheer athleticism, his explosive speed, his unbridled joy for running--as the finest 3-year-old I had seen since Spectacular Bid in 1979. Vast ability aside...
Perhaps the longest lasting piece of Kagan’s tenure will be the new student center, which the Law School plans to build in the place of what many consider to be one of Harvard’s biggest eye-sores, the Everett Street Garage. The largest portion of the $400 million capital campaign will be devoted to the student center and other physical improvements...
...bizarre as the stories seemed, another chilling possibility was yet to be raised: that none of it had happened at all. In January, after an 18-month preliminary hearing that was the longest in California history, a judge ruled that the prosecution of the seven could go forward. But a week later District Attorney Ira Reiner dropped all charges against five of the defendants, calling the evidence against them "incredibly weak." The two remaining accused, Raymond Buckey, 28, and his mother, Peggy McMartin Buckey, 60, were to be tried last month. Now their day in court has been postponed...