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...beer funnel race to see if the younger, more precious Adams would win the right to go tailgate with the Yale wrestling team. Adams lost the race to his sister and, so, lost his sister to the wrestling team. After regaining consciousness, the elder Adams simply shrugged off the defeat. “She goes to an all girls Catholic school,” says Adams, “I never had a chance in hell of taking her.” No, it seems that would require the entire Yale University wrestling squad...
...uncritical recitation of Soviet sources,” he wrote in his subsequent eight-page report, “whereas his efforts at ‘analysis’ are very effective renditions of the Stalinist leadership’s self-understanding of their murderous and progressive project to defeat the backwardness of Slavic, Asiatic peasant Russia...
After 302 years of being second-best, Yalies should be used to taking what Harvard gives them—cooperatively and without complaint. But just hours before their resounding defeat at last weekend’s Game, it seems a few sons of New Haven decided to set-up a backup plan. They didn’t, of course, scramble to conjure a new gridiron strategy; nor, for that matter, did they try do anything that might have legitimately helped their skimpy chances against Harvard’s inexorable might...
...presidential election is another defeat for public campaign financing. But in the face of the Republican fund-raising machine, which is fueled in large part by donors with pockets much deeper than the $2,000 cap on individual contributions, there is no other choice but to maximize Democratic spending ability. For the moment, Dean and Kerry are right to raise and spend as much as they can. Democrats can’t suspend their full-force pursuit of the White House in the name of public financing, even if it is a respectable and worthy ideal...
...tragedy of Sept. 11 made things politically possible that never might have been otherwise. The defeat of Vietnam-maimed Sen. Max Cleland on grounds that he was unpatriotic, the prosecution of pre-emptive war in Iraq, the detention of suspects without trial or counsel, the suspension or revisions of numerous civil liberties—all were conceivable only after the attack, and all are deserving of media scrutiny. Yet the media fairly quickly turned its attention elsewhere (new shark attacks). Now, not only has the public forgotten about the survival of al Qaeda, the failure to locate Saddam, the entire...