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...cricket because it seems to take longer than baseball and I like that. It seems like a sport I could have made up it - it takes several days to play and everyone wears sweaters. I can't confess to knowing what's going on at all. All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports. People always try to explain that sports are about a sort of mythic combat, or [about] the narratives and the stories. You know what? I've got narratives and stories and I don't need sports...
...don’t cry Joe. I know it’s sad that Sarah Palin played you like that, but as you crack open your seventh Bud let me ask you this: have you thought of getting revenge? Let’s vote for Obama, Joe. Not because of that universal healthcare nonsense; I know we’ll never get sick too. Not even for human rights or a more inclusive foreign policy; I’m not sure what those things mean either. Let’s vote for him just to get back at McCain...
...point is not just to get a bunch of pledges, stuff paper in people’s faces and ask them to care about the environment,” said Molly V. N. Bales ’10, a member of the EAC who gathered pledges this weekend. “The point is to create a relationship with people and get people thinking and discussing the issues...
...finished with an orchestral staple, Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World.” Zander gave a thorough overview of the piece, again paired with excerpts from the orchestra, and showed a contagious enthusiasm for the music. “I ask you to bring your whole self to the experience. Roll up your emotional sleeves, and I’ll see you at the end,” he said.From the start of the piece, the orchestra played with more passion and clarity than they had shown during the first half...
...state GOP gathering over the weekend, a county party official asked Crist why he hadn't yet appeared in any ads in support of McCain. "I haven't been asked," Crist said, before stressing that he would "do anything they ask me to." It's not as if McCain's campaign doesn't have recent examples of how the Crist-Florida bond works. Last summer, pundits predicted that McCain's call for oil-drilling off Florida's coast would alienate huge swaths of the state's generally eco-conscious electorate. But after Crist backed McCain on the subject, a majority...