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...anyone, but it doesn’t alarm him, since he never truly recognized anyone but Andre Logan, Will Venable, and Judson Wallace off last year’s team anyway. So, he proceeds unfazed, even though Luke Owings, Noah Savage, and Scott Greenman seem to be playing a cruel prank on him by only answering to Matt, Jeremiah, and Allan, respectively.Finally, Dragutin Kravic and Dalen Cuff realize that they can’t pretend to be Kyle Koncz and Edwin Buffmire when Columbia comes to town on Jan. 13, so they confess, the real Princeton players are released from...
...route to a 5-3 triumph and yet another first-Monday-in-February victory. “I thought we were ready for this,” said Crimson captain Peter Hafner. “I thought we were confident going in.” But the numbers are cruel, really. There are the 12 straight first-round wins for Boston University—and 22 out of the last 23, if you keep counting—but there are also eight straight first-round losses for Harvard, so often the Beanpot’s whipping boy. The Crimson...
...There was praise for her pursuit of justice, her courage and grace, her embrace of peace in the face of cruel force. "As a great movement in history took shape," President Bush said, "her dignity was a daily rebuke to the pettiness and cruelty of segregation...
We’ve all been there before—gleefully typing away in the comments section of the CUE guide, relating in excruciating detail how painful the professor’s lectures were, how incoherent the problem sets, and how ludicrously cruel the grading policy. Sweet, sweet catharsis. But it seems that professors relish their schadenfreude...
...manner of supernatural beings, the stories of The Push Man are set exclusively in the gritty, working-class world of Japan's modern cities. Mostly kept to eight pages due to their original appearance in a Japanese comic anthology, they are endlessly inventive, compact tales full of cruel irony, quiet desperation and schadenfreude. Editor Adrian Tomine (author of Summer Blonde), correctly points out in the introduction that the naturalism of Tatsumi's 1969 stories are wildly ahead of their time in comparison with the U.S., when the underground comix scene had only just barely begun...