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Sophomore Ethan Philpott and freshman Mike Bent scored goals 1:15 and 2:18 after Princeton's equalizer, respectively, to revitalize Harvard and provide the Crimson (3-1-1, 3-1-1 ECAC) with a hard-fought 4-3 victory over the Tigers...
...three, particularly Halberstam, won fame as pioneering antiwar critics after their Vietnam stints were over. But, says Prochnau, "the idea that this early group carried with them an antimilitary bent, polluting a generation of reporters, is one of the enduring myths of the war." The author quotes Sheehan: "We all believed in the American cause." Halberstam sent a message to James Reston of the Times: "I am impressed by what a bold and difficult thing we have undertaken here ... we are going up against the best revolutionaries of our time on their home ground in a type of war which...
...wounds and pour salt in them. In 1992 he talked publicly about the problems a million immigrant "Zulus" might have assimilating in Virginia, compared with a million "Englishmen." He has expressed some doubts about the Holocaust and has said of the AIDS epidemic that "promiscuous homosexuals appear literally hell-bent on Satanism and suicide." His past attacks on gays, Jews and minorities make him a scary prospect, particularly as his rhetoric becomes more nuanced and his codes more subtle this time around...
...stave off numerous attempts by parliament to derail Russia's halting transition to democratic pluralism. But if the balance tips even further in this next election, it would severely challenge the ability of any President to continue using his office as a protective bulwark against a hostile legislature bent on dismantling reform. For all his flaws, Yeltsin has shown an ability to meet such challenges...
AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF HIS first novel, Lucky Jim (1954), Kingsley Amis found himself pigeonholed as one of the Angry Young Men, postwar British writers from the lower classes who seemed bent on toppling the shaky but still oppressive Establishment culture. The label never fit Amis comfortably; he was, at most, an Irritable Young Man, more likely to hoot than to rant. His use of humor as a means of subversion proved remarkably effective and durable. Works during the 1950s by other so-called Angries--novels by John Wain (Hurry on Down) and John Braine (Room...