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...Three subsequent presidential elections seemed to substantiate those hopes. The victor of the 1992 contest, Kim Young Sam, was a lifelong civilian politician, not a military surrogate. The 1997 election went to Kim Dae Jung, a lifelong dissident politician. And the 2002 election led to the inauguration of Roh, a human-rights lawyer and outspoken critic of the "old style" of South Korean cronyism...
...from the cast members’ closets (instead of a lion skin, Hercules makes do with a fake leopard skin jacket). The staging has likewise been updated; Dionysus brandishes a copy of Let’s Go Hell, the infernal judge Aeacus is an Army drill sergeant, and the contest between Aeschylus and Euripides is presented as a game show. While bizarre, these settings make good sense; the Chorus political moralizing is far more palatable when presented as part of a protest by flower children, and it only makes sense that the ferrier to the land of the dead...
...fact that Harvard managed to score with 6:31 left in the game shows that it never gave up throughout the contest. Sophomore Emma Millon, who is also a Crimson editor, came through with a high shot on a free position goal, making 9-3. Junior Rory Edwards followed three minutes later with her first goal of the season, giving the Crimson its final point with two minutes left to play. The Huskies would put up the last point, closing out the game...
Harvard managed to notch six second-half scores, but could not contain the explosive Hartwick attack. The Hawks posted 10 goals in the same span, never giving the Crimson an opportunity to get back into the contest...
Patterson said that the specific issues of 2004—a war and a struggling economy—distinguish this election from the last contest...