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After splitting the two games, Harvard will embark on a west coast trip to face three top-ranked teams—No. 14 Fresno State, No. 36 Arizona State and No. 31 Pepperdine—over spring break. The team is optimistic that they will be able to put the tough loss to Boston College behind them...
...flying?” The real appeal of flight—apart from humanity’s mythical obsession with flying fantasies (remember Daedalus and Icarus?)—is not just efficiency. It’s the fact that airplanes allow us to jump over undesirable places. Coast to coast flight is implicitly about the Middleland, which we may get to know through the comforting familiarity of islands like Cincinnati or Atlanta. The Middleland is a vast sea populated by atolls, stopover oases in the middle of an untraversable desert. Its airports simply reproduce the array of gates, fast...
...record, this land that Huntington calls America was inhabited before the Anglo-Protestants even landed on the East Coast. Huntington does not give enough thought to the fact that there are Hispanics who live in the Southwest, particularly Texas, whose ancestors never crossed any border—in fact, the artificial modern border crossed them. They speak Spanish and embrace their full Hispanic culture, but they are not immigrants because their families have lived in the same cities in Texas for the past 500 years. Very few Anglo-Protestant can say that much or claim residence in the United States...
Ballroom dancing, both recreational and competitive, became hugely popular in the 1920s, particularly on the East Coast. Now it's a worldwide phenomenon in which competitors perform anywhere from 20 to 30 individual dances over several days. Each dance lasts only about 50 sec. to 1 min. 45 sec. A panel of judges bases its decision on a slew of factors, such as timing, poise, balance, style and how well couples move together. Prizes are usually trophies but in some cases cash awards of around $500 that are used to pay for future lessons. Many avid amateurs spend easily...
...true that before last Thursday's horrific train bombings in Madrid that killed 201 people and wounded more than 1,000, the conservative Popular Party - whose outgoing leader, Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar had been the Bush administration's closest Iraq-war ally in Europe - had looked set to coast home by a 5 to 8 percent margin. But once it became clear that bombers came from al-Qaeda rather than the Basque separatists blamed by the government, voters showed up in record numbers to defeat Aznar's party. But even if the catalyst came from al-Qaeda, the election...