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Well, Rogerson had the last laugh last year.His defense forced 34 turnovers, Butler completedhis conquest of the Princeton record books, andthe Tigers finished in a second-place tie (withHarvard) for the Ivy title...
...matter of practice or policy, insoluble. There is no conceivable American policy that will solve the problem of poverty in Central America. (Not that poverty can never be ameliorated. It can. But not by a simple act of political will. In the West, for example, the conquest of mass poverty was the product of two centuries of painful industrialization.) The term root tends to be assigned to the most intractable of conditions. Except in the mind of the revolutionary, that is. The idea of root causes is therefore an invitation to surrender -- to the resistant reality of misery...
Well, Rogerson had the last laugh last year. His defense forced 34 turnovers, Butler completed his conquest of the Princeton record books, and the Tigers finished in a second-place tie (with Harvard) for the Ivy title...
...ship Santa Margarita in 1960 in the Treasure Hunter's Guide, which included references to the two ships sinking off the "Keys of Matecumbe" in a 1622 hurricane. Several years later Fisher met Eugene Lyon, who was beginning research for a doctoral dissertation on the history of the Spanish conquest of Florida. Lyon was about to leave for Seville to study Spanish archives, and Fisher enlisted his aid in the search for the galleons. The researcher eventually wrote from Spain that he had good evidence Matecumbe was a general term for the Florida Keys. He suggested that the treasure...
...diarist himself believed that his record of snobbism and social vaulting, of erotic triumphs and humiliations would make "amusing reading" someday. He was correct, but the most remarkable passages are not those of the invert. Fame was Beaton's aphrodisiac, and if heterosexuality was required for a brilliant conquest, well then, he would try that costume for a while. When he met Greta Garbo after World War II, he energetically seduced her. "I am so unexpectedly violent and have such unlicensed energy when called upon," he boasted to himself. "It baffles and intrigues and even shocks her." But the liaison...