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...home of Kenan Government Prof. Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53, is that Harvard has no Division I sports teams. (Apparently lacrosse and swimming don't factor into his equation. Hockey, at least, merits a brief mention: "I'm so glad that so many of these Canadian semi-pro hockey players can all score the median 1480 SAT to get into Harvard," Wolfe chided a Kennedy School gathering). More specifically Harvard was not groomed with the state school charm where Division I basketball players and footballers strut like kings, secure in the knowledge that the university holds them in even higher...
...hassling with a new language and a new culture, I have become a cross between Jesse Helms and one of the dogs from Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey--and not just in the sense that I'm wrinkly and prone to spontaneous napping. I mean that I'm seriously pro-U.S. and definitely ready to go home. Yesterday, Britney Spears came on the radio and all three of my senior male companions began shrieking like Nebraskan seventh-graders outside the MTV building. That kind of American dementia is a sure sign that Let's Go has become...
...pro-biotechnology," he said. "They've come up with so many medical advances, and so many more I think they'll come up with...
Elian's plight has also given Castro, 73, life support. Last fall, el comandante's relevance was dwindling: even as he played host to a summit of Latin American and Iberian leaders, the spotlight fell instead on foreign capitalists and pro-democracy dissidents. Elian's "kidnapping" changed all that. As a result, Cuban politicos privately declare that even if Elian never returns...
RETURNED. SEAN ELLIOTT, 32, two-time NBA All-Star and the first pro athlete competing in a major sport with a kidney transplant; to the court, seven months after the operation; in San Antonio, Texas...