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...their previous album, Hello, Nasty, in 1998, the Beastie Boys have accumulated an aura of seriousness that is almost wholly undeserved. It's true that they issued a long-overdue apology for the homophobia of their historically dumb first record, 1986's Licensed to Ill, and continued to champion the cause of Tibetan freedom. But in much the same way that Condoleezza Rice's oft repeated desire to be commissioner of the NFL hardly makes her a jock, the Beasties' hopes for a free Tibet don't make them statesmen. The Tibet thing was just, you know, something they kind...
...they were willing to tolerate some flagrant inconsistencies in his governance. His big 1981 tax cut was followed by two years of large, if undramatized, tax increases. He didn't shrink the size of the government (Bill Clinton was the only recent President to do that). Reagan was a champion of the religious right, but rarely attended church and never paid much more than lip service to the right-to-life movement. He was a critic of government waste, but routinely lavished more money on the military than the Pentagon asked for--and he stubbornly insisted on funding an utterly...
Coming off a 2002 campaign in which Harvard challenged for the league title, it appeared that the Crimson might have had the momentum necessary to knock off two-time defending champion Penn...
Despite a late rally that pulled the Crimson to within two, Harvard fell to second-seeded and eventual champion Hartwick 10-5 in the next round...
...men’s fencing team opened the season on an inauspicious note against eventual Ivy League champion Columbia...