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...Still, there's reason to doubt that Hamas and Fatah will be able to keep up the good cheer. After years of struggle against Israel, the Palestinians are watching their leaders engage in a bitter fight with each other over power and control of the Palestinian Authority. It pits Abbas, a secular but weak moderate, who controls the presidency and has the backing of Israel and the international community, against Hamas, which won a majority in legislative elections last January, but has struggled to establish legitimacy, due in part to the cutoff in Western aid to its government. The violence...
...tongue-in-cheek” application for IM Athlete of the Year, Gilligan demonstrated the affable spirit that won him over in the hearts of all who met him. He said he fought exhaustion walking from the finish line of the River Run after winning to cheer on other Eliot runners, and he described himself as the “spiritual leader” of the Eliot basketball team that won the championship game. However, Gilligan also mentioned his “laughable attempt at the 100 individual medley” as one of the “must...
...needs if he is willing to work for it. And conversely it is just as easy to be left alone. There is no such thing as school spirit per se. Attendance at the rare football rallies is often so poor that everybody walks home without even attempting to cheer. The so called “All-College Weekend” has been abandoned as a miserable flop. Yet when President Pusey replied to Senator McCarthy’s charges that there was hardly a single undergraduate who was not proud of his university and its president. This kind of pride...
...occurred in the classroom, in the dining hall and in the dorm—but it also occurred in the press box, on the sidelines and in the stands, along the fence and on the banks of the Charles. Harvard’s athletes gave me something to cheer about, something to feel allegiance to, and something to be proud of. Looking back, I cannot say when or where it actually occurred, or when I first knew there had been a change. I only know that the transformation is complete. Though I still have a soft spot for the Fordham...
...Cheer up, Ahmad," she teases him. "Things cant be so bad." She rolls her half-bare shoulder, lifting it as if to shrug, to show she is being playful...