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...this Aug. 16 is the 25th anniversary of the King's death, a commercially overdriven event that's sure to set off a howl of commentary about the King as American tragedy, as vulnerable transgressive, as daring racial-boundary breaker, as revolutionary synthesizer of musical styles, and on and on. Not that there is anything inappropriate about all the heady chatter. Our famous American dead accrue layers of interpretation through the years and become palimpsests of cultural meaning. Like Elvis, born to poor parents in Depression-era Mississippi, our pop figures usually follow an arc from nowhere to somewhere...
...students doesn’t understand that sports aren’t everything—that physical strength can only take you so far. And dress—brands, labels, fit, color—become a matter of worry or consuming pride, a friendship maker or breaker...
...Radcliffe 2V and first novice boats also suffered close losses. The Elis second varsity won by four seconds and their first novice boat dished out a heart-breaker with a margin of three-tenths of a second...
...same, and locking mechanisms are standard across the board, so the blades won't close by accident and sever a finger. But look more closely, and you will see trade-offs. The SwissTool has a metal-saw blade, great for prison breaks, but it lacks scissors--a deal breaker in my book. The Leatherman has the most balanced selection, but it lacks the useful miniruler that's etched into the casings of the Swiss-Tool and the PowerLock...
Brown served as the Crimson back-breaker, predominately as the shooting guard, which is a recent change in the UNC line-up. Brown stepped up in Teasley’s absence last year, earning the position of starting point guard. But on Jan. 27 this year, Teasley moved back to the point and Brown settled into shooting guard where she has thrived. The versatility of the backcourt twosome provided UNC with a threat that Harvard could not contain...