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Rooting for Jeremy Lin

By Kevin Cullen

 |  Globe Columnist  

  February 21, 2012

Four years ago, I was at a dinner at Harvard when someone introduced me to a junior from California, a nice, polite kid who explained that he was majoring in economics. On Sunday, I was at a family gathering, and everybody was crowded around the widescreen TV watching that kid from Harvard who majored in economics. His name is Jeremy Lin and his unlikely, sudden NBA stardom is the most refreshing story in a non-winter that has been dominated by bored TV forecasters and a presidential campaign that is boring us all to tears.

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