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...learned to live away from home, chosen concentrations, coped with the zoo known as Annenberg, figured out blocking, been punched (fortunately, by clubs), searched for jobs, joined organizations, suffered through 7 a.m. practices, crammed for exams, triumphed, failed, held each other’s hair back, slain the thesis beast, whined, dined, thought, joked, laughed, and, most recently, partied in Cabo. It has been an amazing four years...
...really want to starve the beast of these governments, there are two viable options: military force or reducing oil demand. Forced change of these governments is generally drastic and unpopular—no one is clamoring for invasions of Sudan or Burma. The other option is to give pause to how world oil demand could be reduced. While demand remains at current levels, these governments will get their money and very little can be done to change these governments that have no internal incentives to improve. Thus, if we want to make a real difference we should not vent...
...laugh at my naïve optimism, pointing to the prevalence of steroids and weight training as evidence that the offensive beast is still tightening its iron grip on pitching. But when Aaron Heilman of New York, a pitcher who entered the season with a career ERA of 6.36, threw a one-hit shutout last Friday night, I knew that the great wheel of the baseball ages had already begun to turn...
...public display. It is hidden behind stone battlements, in bleak inner courtyards of black asphalt. In these forbidding surroundings, the rite of passage into the Long Gray Line begins every July with a seven-week ordeal that is officially labeled Cadet Basic Training but is better known as Beast Barracks. Plebes are weaned from teen culture (TVs are banned from the rooms) and taught to be "warriors." "Not savages, but gentlemen," explains Cadet Captain Chris Borgerding. Plebes are constantly "corrected" by upperclassmen, but hazing is forbidden. For years, plebes were so busy reciting and saluting at mealtime that they went...
...nimble tread of melancholic star quality. Raymond agonizes about his family back home; Kolya never visits or mentions the family he must have left stranded. Raymond hates U.S. politics, but the disco beat pulsing from Kolya's tape deck calls him home. Good idea, Ray, since the cagey beast from the KGB (Jerzy Skolimowski) hates blacks...