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They were the darkest years of Machiavelli's life, and King poignantly captures his anguish as he became a broken man, haunted by a sense of defeat and inadequacy. "Physically I feel well, but ill in every other respect," he wrote to a friend in 1513. Subsequent missives grew increasingly plaintive as he worried about "rotting away ... unable to find any man who recalls my service or believes I might be good for anything." The man who had once graced the courts of Louis XII and Ferdinand II now trapped birds for dinner and passed his afternoons in a tavern...
...might not repeat the experiment next year, citing six attempted physical attacks on him during the Slacker Tour. He declared himself "not overly thrilled" about the current Democratic Presidential candidates and floated the notion of a Gore-Obama ticket. He reminded the crowd of the Democrats' knack for clutching defeat from the jaws of victory, adding, "We should be prepared to say the words 'President Giuliani...
...Harvard field hockey team started its Ivy League schedule the right way, defeating Penn, 3-1, at Jordan Field for its second straight victory. The Quakers (0-4, 0-1 Ivy), meanwhile, suffered their fourth consecutive defeat. “We always get pretty psyched up for [Ivy League games], and it’s a great feeling to start 1-0 in the Ivy League,” co-captain Devon Shapiro said. The high temperature and bright sun took a small toll on the Crimson’s (2-1, 1-0 Ivy) energy, but not its offense...
...least two professors are calling not for a defeat of the Islamist terrorists but for appeasing them at Israel’s expense,” wrote Stoll, a former Crimson president...
There are many ways to remember the dead. It's hard to argue that learning how to defeat real evil, slap aside pretenders and rebuild in the face of abiding sorrow aren't three very good ones...