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While the Harvard men's cross-country team was attempting to establish local credibility at the Greater Boston Championships yesterday, the women's team was seeking to assert itself as the best in Beantown...
...there was more to this faith in the military than simply a psychological longing for security. In Israel at least half the Jewish population practices Judaism in a secular way. These people find no need to assert their Jewishness because they live in Israel. Yet, for them, something has replaced religion--the state itself...
Saddam's power grab is a bold reminder of the role brute force will always play in the history of nations. Without the threat of escalation to superpower conflict, countries with sophisticated weapons and thuggish rulers will try to take advantage of the shifting international climate to assert their will. The ( threat to U.S. interests is not some distant danger. It is very real, and not only because of the region's oil reserves. Does America really want to let the Saddams of the world shape the new global power structure...
Essayists on the American mind usually find it impossible to go much longer than two or three paragraphs before making some reference to Calvinism. But it takes guts for a playwright to make John Calvin, the 16th century theologian, an actual character onstage. Scholars of popular culture frequently assert that the national soul is mirrored in the game of baseball. Yet it takes great faith -- not only in his own intelligence but also in the audience's -- for a dramatist to depict the making of the American imperium through the life of centerfielder Ty Cobb. The nation's theater...
...Harry Hogge, and he is played by the redoubtable Robert Duvall. Harry is, naturally, stern but forgiving, all business on the track, a free and playful spirit away from it -- as much a fantasy as Cruise's neostud. But Duvall finds an odd shyness in Harry; he doesn't assert goodness, he just kind of, you know, behaves it. Duvall not only grounds his character in reality; he almost succeeds in grounding the whole picture in it as well. Anyway, he gives those grownups who happen to wander in where they are not wanted something to think about...