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...adopted a more hands-off, apathetic approach to the rise of Mussolini’s fascism. While many of Italy’s artists and intellectuals were in theory “liberal,” meaning sympathetic to the democratic monarchy, “liberal writers were totally absent from the political scene,” said Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Lino Pertile. “They did not think it was their business to meddle...
...some time now, a verbal disease has been spreading through the diction of Harvard’s undergrads. Instead of the reasoned, eloquent, SAT-word-enriched speech one would expect to find in America’s most prestigious institution of post-secondary education, a type of indiscreet, absent-minded, and otherwise unintelligent sounding disclaimer is infiltrating every section on campus. It is high time that something is said about...
...that game, standout junior netminder Love posted 48 saves to stymie the Harvard offense, floundering without absent international starts Julie Chu and Sarah Vaillancourt, and lift her team to the win. Love is the kind of inconsistent goalie whose stats may not be gaudy but certainly holds the potential to dominate any game. The result snapped the Crimson’s 39-game winning streak in the series...
...crispness and efficiency that characterized the Crimson’s recent play were conspicuously absent from the later periods of its series-opening shutout of the Golden Knights...
...REILLY: We're about finished with winter. Typically, the early part of the year in the second quarter is the lowest-demand time. Absent some disruption in the world, I expect crude prices to moderate a little bit in the next few months. But you've got to put qualifiers around that. We're notoriously bad predictors...