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...Harvard has already beaten the Skating Dutchmen once this season, blanking them...
Then again, Maine has beaten Boston University, Lake Superior State, and Miami (Ohio), and has crushed the rest of its competition easily. Harvard hasn't met regular challenges like that and won't until the tournament comes around...
...Quakers, off to their best start since 1978-79 (the season they went to the Final Four), have also beaten Holy Cross (78-76) and Northwestern (64-61). To give you an idea of where Harvard stands in the thick of all this, the Crimson lost to Holy Cross, 92-72, in a game that was as one-sided as a compact disc...
Even basic political matters are left hazy. Before the election of 1864, Lincoln predicted, "I am going to be beaten, and beaten badly." Another fit of depression, or was he in real political trouble? He wound up, of course, winning decisively. Why? No clues here. The documentary spends far more time on melodrama, especially the events leading up to Lincoln's assassination. It's an effort to hype a story that, as The Civil War should have proved, doesn't need...
...know that images can hold history in place. We forget sometimes that they can also drive it forward. In 1992 Los Angeles exploded over the meaning of pictures of a black man being beaten by white police. And it was pictures -- of spectral women and withered children -- that launched the rescue mission in Somalia. It may have been awkward to have cameras meet the troops when they landed, but wasn't it also appropriate? In a sense it was cameras that had sent them there...