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...Crown; 308 pages...
...annually in the village of Ashton in southeast England, the British game grows up, drawing an international roster of children and their nostalgic parents. This year, nearly five hundred competitors from as far away as Jamaica and the Ukraine are competing for bragging rights, a trophy and a garish crown adorned with chestnuts. The event feels like a cross between Halloween and a college football game. Five thousand spectators don fancy costumes (think nuns, pirates, horses and Dumbledore) and, from 9:30 in the morning, guzzle beer and munch on sausages...
...While failing to capture the Ivy League crown this year can rightfully be viewed as a regrettable misfortune, it is ultimately just an inferior goal to the true evaluation of this season: how far can the team go in the NCAA tournament...
...still well within reach. Nevertheless, the Crimson mustn’t view its season with despair if an Ivy League title isn’t in the cards. The NCAA provides a plethora of riches far more valuable than anything offered up by another Ivy League crown...
...emphasis on written documents in traditional historical scholarship led Puritan women to be remembered only by eulogistic sermons which obscured their individuality, and she criticized the tendency of historians to neglect those who are not the movers and shakers of history. “Hoping for an eternal crown, they never asked to be remembered on earth. And they haven’t been. Well-behaved women seldom make history,” she wrote. Twenty years later, she received an e-mail from a young woman who had found the phrase “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make...