Word: semis
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...champagne at the 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...
...flung against the lockers in junior high. In his talk of masculinity, surely there is some envy of more manly types. John Wayne, or even Norman Mailer, would surely pashaw at Wolfe's own practice of manliness. Wolfe is not Truman Capote, however. He was once an athlete, pitching semi-pro baseball. Despite his age, he shows off his virility in his young children. His manliness is of a particularly southern variety, the flamboyance of an aristocrat, albeit affected in Wolfe's case...
...dispute that reality. Still, if Castro controls Juan Miguel, many are worried that the Foundation is manipulating Lazaro Gonzalez, 49, the semi-employed great-uncle who has custody of Elian in Miami. Close relatives in Miami say his many publicity stunts with the boy are out of character. And while relatives say they admire the mothering that Lazaro's daughter Marisleysis, 21, has given Elian, they complain, in the words of one of them, that "she doesn't make him a glass of chocolate milk without telling him that his grandmothers can't buy that for him in Cuba...
...finds it particularly objectionable when professional football players huddle on the field for a semi-private pregame prayer. But when a similar prayer is broadcast from the bleachers of a public high school football game, fallout becomes more likely - even in football-mad, religiously conservative Texas. Witness the events of 1995 in Santa Fe, Texas: The families of two students at the local high school filed suit against the district, claiming the pregame prayers blaring out of the school's public address system violated the First Amendment by "creating a pervasive religious atmosphere." Those families are not feeling especially popular...
...outlet for under-partied undergraduates. "Nobody else here has parties, so I might as well do it myself," quips Das, whose parents conveniently graced him with a Charles Square apartment before his junior year. With five official parties tallied since September, the pad has proved its worth. Das' latest semi-formal fete was a sequel to September's successful wine-and-cheese theme...