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...Streak or no streak, Harvard presents us with a number of challenges from a preparation standpoint,” Lembo said. “With their outstanding skill and line on offense, they may be the best overall unit we have seen in recent years, including in the I-AA playoffs...
...Several spring looks are constructed of thin bands of material sewn together horizontally, like belts, that can be adjusted. "I think the idea of self-tailoring is very modern," says Posen. "I want to embrace the creativity of people. Besides, all women fuss with their clothes." His pattern-making skill is almost mathematical, fitting flat geometric shapes to moving form. "My clothes are supportive and seductive," he says...
When Doug Harvey--a former umpire so esteemed by National League players that they called him "God"--said to Leavy, "I have as much respect for Sandy Koufax as for any man I've ever met in my life," he wasn't talking about Koufax's skill. It was not his matchless talent that exalted Koufax beyond his greatest contemporaries so much as it was his knowledge that character was not connected to talent. He never discredited his majestic accomplishments--"How could you do the things I did and not love it?" he asked Leavy in an unguarded moment...
...Deitch's art looks very much like the cartoons of the 1930s - simple and happy with lots of movement and activity in every corner of the frame. But they are done in heavily shaded black and white, rather than bright colors, and depict very adult subjects. Done with such skill, it's an upsetting...
Sure, it may not pay $80,000 the first year, or involve swanky corner offices—but, alas, few jobs are more suited to a Harvard student’s skill set upon graduation. Thanks to classes with long reading lists and no sourcebooks, the photocopying prowess of Harvard grads is stunning, rivaled only by their light-speed typing and gourmet coffee preparation technique. Harvard may purport to be training future leaders, but in practice, students have to log long hours with the Lamont photocopiers instead of being able to ponder great theoretical works...