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...Harvard’s A team took fifth place, while the B team did not fare as well, suffering elimination after losing its first two matches of the tournament. Harvard managed to put forth a good showing at the tournament despite lacking one of its better players, freshman Richard Hill. Hill is currently representing Singapore at the South East Asia Games. Both teams were scheduled to play on Friday but received byes after the teams they were scheduled to play did not show up. Consequently, the two squads had their first matches on Saturday. The Harvard A team took...
...Brokaw, each major event of the ‘60s represented a “boom,” particularly the assassinations. The last “boom,” which signaled the end of the ‘60s for Brokaw, was the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974. “What was great about the ‘60s is that all the nerve endings were exposed, all the time,” Brokaw reflected. “Left, right, and in the middle. At the end of the day, everyone was talking about what...
...finally arrived in the U.S. and Britain, the first of Verhaeghen's three novels to be translated into English. Critics are comparing him to such German masters as Günter Grass and W. G. Sebald, as well as to science-minded American novelists like Thomas Pynchon and Richard Powers. Indeed, Powers - who has lived in Holland - helped find a U.S. publisher for the book, calling it "amazing" and praising Verhaeghen for taking on "the whole 20th century in a single novel...
Classics professor Richard F. Thomas—who joined the Harvard faculty in 1977, the same year that Stewart assumed the helm of the Classics Department—said he remembered his colleague as a man “who cared about people who were not necessarily in high positions...
...there were 35 to 40 million Catholics in the U.S., strategically settled in a dozen swing states from the Northeast across the Midwest. Those voters had in many cases gone for Eisenhower. Kennedy wanted to bring them home to the Democrats. Playing the religion card might have helped Richard Nixon in southern and border states, where he was already strong, but would have cost him in swing industrial states that he badly needed to win, so Nixon made a point of telling his people not to raise the religious issue (a plea that was not heeded by everyone in Nixon...