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The Olympics have been used before to solemnize a nation's vision of itself. The 1964 Games in Tokyo announced that a new powerhouse had been rebuilt from the ashes of war; the ones in Seoul, 24 years later, that a country of the developing world had achieved modernity. But...
That's the dirty little secret about sports fans. We're basically amoral. Kant said that acting ethically means treating other people as ends in and of themselves, not merely as means to our own desires. But that's exactly how fans treat coaches and players. We want them to...
In fact, coach Weiss is so confident in her squad that she has set her sights on an Ivy League title, which the Crimson has won only once since 1977-78, when it split the league with both Princeton and Yale in 2004-2005.
For a coach and a team who want nothing less than a championship banner, it will be an enormous step in deciding whether this season will end in glory or disappointment. Mahon, however, is confident of her team’s chances at bringing home an Ivy League title.
The possibility that the bronze could have also ended up outside China angered nationalists. But Sotheby's argued that it would likely have ended up on the mainland even if it went to auction. "We were quite confident that the object there stood a very good chance of falling into...