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Only last week, in his State of the Union Address, President Reagan cited Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 as the arch enemy of welfare. The selective right-wing memory seems to forget who created the American welfare state in the first place...
...team is now 4-4 and has an important meet coming up Saturday against arch-rival Cornell. "If we could be 1-20," Coach John Lee said about the rivalry, "I would be happy if the one win was over Cornell...
Much of 20th century American design seems to have been animated by two competing impulses. One is a kind of mannered childishness, a sometimes arch toymaker's instinct that produced the streamlined gadgetry of late art deco, the Day-Glo plastics of Pop, the high-tech doodads and joke furniture of today. The other is a reformist urge. When not fashioning playthings, designers turn grave, producing furniture and other objects that are neo- Puritan, high-minded. The severe geometries of Frank Lloyd Wright's turn- of- the-century interiors and Steven Holl's beautiful side chair (1984), for example...
...pieces of flint sharpened against harder stones. Because of the inconvenience of these razors, however, the practice of walking clean-shaven didn't really catch on until 356 B.C. when bronze razors were available, according to the text. In that year, Roman hero Scipio Africanus celebrated his victory over arch-rival Hannibal with a clean shave and from there on, progress has been steady in helping man's continuing battle against the beard: in the mid-1100s Arab engineers introduced the steel razor, the 17th-century European Reformation brought "a clean-shaven look" along with a new approach to eternal...
...women, just coming off a big upset of arch-rival Brown last Tuesday, the meet was a chance to swim in a less pressured situation...