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...didn’t think we played tough in the first half,” Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said. “Universally, I think the team was disappointed with the way we came out...We had a decent lead, but I don’t think we were really pleased with how we were playing...
...promising young pitching prospect out of Washington and Lee University showed up for a tryout with the New York Giants (the baseball Giants, that is--they hadn't yet decamped for San Francisco). The prospect made a decent showing: three innings, three men on base, no runs scored. Good screwball, nice sinker, not much heat. "If somebody had offered me a Class D professional contract," says the prospect--whose name was Tom Wolfe--many decades later, "I would have gladly put off writing for a couple of decades...
...music is so gleefully esoteric that it can’t be taken at face value and so opaque that it doesn’t make a statement. A decent parallel is early Beck: obscure, illogical, culturally hyper-aware, teetering on the verge of kitsch. It’s a pity Ariel Pink doesn’t have Beck’s talent, or this album might have been a lo-fi classic instead of a half-fleshed out concept. The Doldrums is troglodytic music: the detritus of decades pushed underground and reformed into something unsettling and unfit...
...home nation. Australia’s immigration system is extremely simple: If you’re smart, speak English and are unlikely to go straight to welfare then you’re probably good for getting residency or citizenship. As it happens, that’s a decent description of most Harvard students...
Kerry said he would reserve the right to take unilateral action in defense of the U.S. but that any such action should pass a "global test" to be viewed as legitimate. That is hardly a new doctrine. Our Declaration of Independence refers to "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind" and says, "let Facts be submitted to a candid world." Republicans have been quick to rephrase Kerry's statements to imply that he would defer to the U.N. or get an O.K. from France. But even Bush submitted his rationale for the Iraq war to world opinion. Unfortunately...