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...Crimson has made 21 appearances in the NCAA tournament, including two streaks of five consecutive seasons. That first streak culminated in 1989 with a national championship, the banner for which hangs in the Crimson’s Bright Hockey Center...
...citizens last week, Shays demanded they ask him tough questions, and they obliged with a barrage on Iraq. Asked if he had confidence in Donald Rumsfeld, Shays said he had "little to no confidence "in the Defense Secretary. He was asked why Bush stood in front of a huge banner that read "Plan for Victory" for a speech last week. "I would never speak at a podium with the word 'victory' because we don't know if it will be a success," Shays said. "To say 'Mission Accomplished' or 'Victory' - it remains to be seen...
...Fifth Avenue. We stood in the biting cold for hours—and then marched for hours more—as an awful mix of rain and snow blew south into our faces. Despite the terrible weather, hundreds and hundreds of AOH members turned out to walk behind their banner, smiling despite the cold and the stinging wind. As I joined the thousands who marched and saw the countless spectators who cheered us on, I realized we all knew what the fuss was about. On this one day, Irish-Americans throng the streets and fill the air with pipes...
...Such critiques might not matter if Hu & Co. really were turning back the clock to 1950. But Maoist China is hardly what the current leaders are striving to replicate. "The new leadership is keen to promote this socialist banner because it recalls an era when there was no challenge to the Communist Party," says Joseph Cheng, a China-watcher at City University in Hong Kong. "With unrest rising all over China, they want a justification for their monopoly on political power...
...more an affirmation of Christianity than an unequivocal rejection of religion. As George M. Marsden writes in “The Soul of the American University,” the shift was not occurring “in the name of an attack on Christianity but under the banner of its expansion.” In effect, he writes, whatever Harvard did simply was Christian.“A student in 1970 and a student in 1870 were educated in very different ways,” says Daniel E. Luxemburg ’07, who will be writing his thesis...