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...that element of control that spurred his 32-year-old son to make his move this morning. "It is time for me to continue his legacy in the only way I know I can by taking the life lessons he taught me, be a man, race hard and contend for championships. Since that is what I intend to do, I feel strongly that I would have my father's blessing...
...look at the empirical data and deny the existence of material progress, but many contend that there has not been concomitant moral progress—a sublimation of our intrinsic greed, cruelty, and penchant for violence into more a humane social ethos. Once again, as much as it may please us to romanticize the Rousseauian savage and see civilization as the source of all moral and spiritual malaise, an honest account of our ethical development cannot bear out our prelapsarian fantasies...
Hobbies can be dangerous. In the new video for indie-rocking Canucks Tokyo Police Club’s “A Lesson in Crime,” a middle-aged man is forced to contend with the often horrific results of his apparently perilous pastime—building miniature train sets...
...only do Mather residents live a mile away from anything except Dunster House—which is hardly a great consolation—but they also have to contend with suites that make the digs on submarines look homey. Sure, live in Mather and you’ll score a single bedroom for three years, but good luck finding it. To say nothing of the fact that the Mather HoCo is evidently completely and totally insane. (Secession? Really? Who do you think you are? Ukraine? At least they have oil-rich pipelines. Mather has exposed pipes...
...contend with the psychological challenge of counting laps or lengths? What does God mean to you? -Paul Casey, Dublin, Ireland When I race, I don't think about it, it just happens. When I workout, I just think of it as something you do and something I've done the past 14 years, so guess it's just a natural thing your body is just used...