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...today??s world of recruiting, coaches like Tommy Amaker face a challenge: Harvard can be a tough sell for a student who is being recruited by colleges outside the Ivies that will pay athletes to come. Coaches’ successes depend on their ability to attract these sorts of players. Appealing to talented players for whom, sports aside, Harvard would not otherwise be an option is one attractive path. There’s another, less talked-about problem too. Athletes who feel a weaker connection to Harvard outside of sports are more likely to stay dedicated to their...
...documents Fleck’s travel to the African nations of Uganda, Tanzania, The Gambia, and Mali in an effort to uncover the roots of the instrument that is now regarded as quintessentially American. He eventually encountered the akontig, an instrument fashioned from a gourd with striking similarities to today??s banjo. For 30 consecutive days, Fleck met and played with local musicians, choosing songs in the evening and playing them for the rolling cameras the next day. “The beat almost never was where I thought it was,” Fleck told the audience...
...influences ranging from Jorge Luis Borges to Franz Kafka, Millhauser often remains strongly—even disappointingly—anchored in American soil. The second chapter, “Impossible Architectures,” features “The Dome,” an unmistakable dystopian portrayal of today??s consumerist society. In a narrative closely resembling historical essay, the story details the evolution of a large, transparent, protective dome, first over wealthy residences, then over middle-class suburbia, and finally over the entire country—a haunting extension of the shopping mall...
...while Buckley’s anti-elitism was charming because of its element of ironic self-awareness, today??s conservatives, admittedly attempting to follow his lead, have lapsed either into a reflexive philistinism or George Will’s poseurish pomposity. Buckley only could maintain this balance because he understood that one must first have the benefit of intelligence before maligning the intelligent. As for elitism, he was an aristocrat par excellence, fond of Bach and sailing, and is rumored to have taken his yacht outside of U.S. waters so that he could smoke pot while preserving...
...scoring tug-of-war game, the Harvard men’s lacrosse team slipped to host Siena by a 6-5 score, Saturday, in coach John Tillman’s first game for the Crimson.“I think that today??s game should be a lesson to us that you can’t underestimate any team,” tri-captain Nick La Fiura said. “I don’t think that the coach had underprepared us, but maybe some of us thought less of this team than maybe we would have...