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...seven-footer has spent the past five months since his collegiate career ended in training and at scout-attended workouts in a bid to latch on to an NBA roster. His season ended when Harvard’s fall semester concluded in late January...
...Most of all, we miss the living presence of Dieter Dengler, who died five years ago. When we met him in Little Dieter, he was driving in a solid car, living in a stolid middle class house, having spent the rest of his life as a test pilot (he managed to survive four more plane crashes), apparently unmarked by his youthful adventures. That came to be the most heroic thing about him - his ability to embrace normalcy, to talk about the past almost as if it were a story that happened to someone else. There was a tranquility about...
...Having spent a lot of my journalistic life in Cairo, I'm fond of Egyptian food. The garlic-spiced mashed fava bean dish called ful medames, for instance, which we eat for breakfast, lunch or dinner. My teenage daughter repudiated McDonald's after seeing Supersize Me, so when she's out with her friends, they go to a local hangout known for its kushari, a spicy mix of macaroni, rice, chick peas and lentils...
Given that Gross's tenure as dean has extended beyond the time current undergraduates have spent at the College, it may be difficult to imagine an individual leading the College other than the affable Gross, who had a tradition of hosting monthly breakfasts with undergraduates...
...better to present graduates with such a proclamation than someone who has spent his career doing those very things for the students and their college...