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...same year I arrived at Harvard, Boston was transformed into a blessed city. The concept was, in some ways, challenging for a town so used to thinking of itself as cursed, but it happened nonetheless. First, the Red Sox won the World Series, the single most meaningful sports moment Boston will ever experience. A few months later, the Patriots claimed their third Super Bowl in four years, a victory that was so satisfying because it was so very meaningless after two prior championships. With these twin triumphs, a city steeped in a tradition of losing found itself immersed, uncomfortably...
...miss his entire sophomore season due to injury, senior quarterback Chris Pizzotti stood triumphantly undefeated at the center of the Yale Bowl before 57,248 fans after besting ugly stepsister and bitter rival Yale 37-6 for the Ivy League championship. It could have been the perfect career-ending moment. But it wasn’t, because Pizzotti will be back again next year for his fifth season and to lead Harvard in another quest for the Ivy crown. “It was something I was planning on since the accident my sophomore year,” Pizzotti said...
...newest incarnation of Epstein’s artist—was turned away from the audience, completely excluding them from the relationship between Beckett’s characters. He experimented with a description of his lover’s face, editing and restating a description of the moment in which he first saw her again and again. Epstein’s hauntingly lovelorn voice embodied the painful evolutionary process of artistic creation, one which ultimately brought him closer to his lover...
3rd/5:01: Richter has a scary moment of his own, but he finds the puck and dives...
...don’t buy the cynical argument, then here’s a pragmatic one: awareness campaigns are collectively self-defeating. The more campaigns there are, the less effective they become—there is only so much a person can be mentally aware of at a given moment. Activism on campus has now become like the Magic Faraway Tree from the Enid Blyton stories. Every so often, a new themed-land emerges at the top, a silly, fanciful, senseless thing like the Land of Do-As-You-Please, or Take-What-You-Want. Like at Harvard, these then...