Word: bearings
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...storied American institution of a different sort, the Bronx Bombers bear many parallels to our eminent university. The Yankees just entered a self-declared “transition period” after concluding a seventh consecutive season without a world championship. Harvard, meanwhile, has struggled to define its new undergraduate curriculum and has not seen the top of its own league’s standings (at least in U.S. News and World Report) in a couple of years. Annual student satisfaction surveys unerringly place it near-bottom compared to peer schools. It bears asking, then: Have we and the Yanks...
...welfare bludgers who are played upon by a handful of black demagogues. They oppose the idea of a national apology for past treatment of the Aborigines--a deserved and, in liberal opinion, an essential gesture of goodwill--by saying all this happened in their grandfathers' time, and the living bear no responsibility for it. This is Prime Minister Howard's view too, although--significantly enough--he is quick to drape himself in the nobler emblems of Australian history with which his generation had nothing to do, such as the heroism of the soldiers at Gallipoli...
...tripping near the end of the race. Sophomore Chaz Gillespie came in 40th, finishing in 31:00.95.Senior Ryan Hafer wrapped up the scoring, finishing 68th in 31:28.55.The team score of 201 put the Crimson seventh, third among Ivy schools behind fourth-place Brown and fifth-place Cornell. The Bears were a mere 13 points ahead of Harvard, magnifying the disappointment of Lipkin’s unlucky fall.“Our top four guys all ran fast,” Holmquest said. “We were all under 31 [minutes]; most years, if you’re under...
...have to excuse me, sir, for crying," said a big bear of a man named Andy Enders as he stood by the remains of what had been "the most beautiful memorial ever created by private citizens, in my opinion...
...television, you have to bear down and try to translate these complicated decisions without condescending or pandering,” said Wiehl, who is a legal analyst at Fox News...