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Colin Powell gets a hug at Harvard

Harvard student Yael Karakowsky gives Colin Powell a hug after his talk at Harvard. (Jay Connor for The Boston Globe)

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell got a warm welcome at Harvard this week. The retired four-star general, whose talk at the Graduate School of Education focused on the importance mentoring, was ambushed afterward by an admirer Yael Karakowsky, a master’s candidate at the World’s Greatest University…Perhaps following in the footsteps of Bill Parcells, who’s a big fan of the ponies, Pats coach Bill Belichick is attending the Kentucky Derby as a guest of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino…With the Sox off Thursday, teammates Dustin Pedroia and Jacoby Ellsbury dined with friends at Nick Varano’s Strega in the North End…Friday, former NBA coaches Flip Saunders and Jeff van Gundy had lunch at Strega Waterfront.

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