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...play and gallantry. These are laudable ideals, to be sure, but they neglect other important aspects of athletics. Crucial components, like the perfection athletes seek in training and their deserved contentment with the competitive machines they mold themselves into. There is also the view of sports as a competitive clash of personalities as well as bodies, of will matched against will. Athletes are personalities, and the best of them bleed these personalities with every movement they make on the field. When sports are played at their highest level, we go to see the person express himself through actions often more...
...show strong support for the Bush Administration's measures, opinion takers are picking up on the stirrings of skepticism. Focus groups--wide-ranging interviews in which participants talk about their concerns rather than respond to questions--suggest that Americans see the relationship between security and freedom not as a clash of absolutes but as a balance of values, both of which are important to them. "People raise the concern on their own," an influential Democratic strategist told TIME. "It's very much in the context of 'If we become like them, they...
...this is to be a clash of civilizations, Islam vs. the West, there might still be time for a period of serious, difficult introspection--a cultural examination of conscience on both sides...
...strangest culture clash of the war in Afghanistan took place on a bright Sunday morning in late November. In the Qala-i-Jangi prison fortress, a few miles west of Mazar-i-Sharif, CIA agent Johnny ("Mike") Spann was sorting through 300 surrendered Taliban soldiers in an attempt to determine which of them were al-Qaeda members. Dressed in blue jeans, with an AK-47 strapped across the back of his black sweater, Spann passed through several rows of Taliban before crouching in front of a prisoner who had been separated from the rest, a mass of tangled hair...
...Crimson are back in action next Tuesday at Lavietes Pavillion for a 7 p.m. showdown with the Rhode Island Rams. Then the Crimson take to the road for a cross town match-up with Northeastern on Dec. 15th before a clash with the Big East’s Syracuse Orangewomen in the Carrier Dome...