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...Were cable available, my neighbors on the third floor of Quincy might subscribe just to spare themselves the agony of listening to me try to install DirecTV in my dorm room. It’s hard to put a price on avoiding the haunting screams of violent anger and defeat associated with me and my roommates’ installation of the satellite pointing out of our common room window—an enterprise whose only success, by the way, was in demonstrating empirically that DirecTV dishes are in fact governed by the laws of gravity...
During Mleczko’s near-perfect senior season, the Crimson’s only defeat was to the Bears, and Murphy did not let her forget...
...Harvard men’s soccer team continued it’s late-game heroics last night, scoring three second-half goals to defeat Maine, 3-2, in Falmouth, Maine...
Second, because we often need such dictators to win the larger struggle against a global threat to liberty--Nazism, communism, Islamic radicalism. Did we not, after all, join with Stalin, one of the great monsters of the 20th century, in order to defeat Hitler? Does anyone doubt not just the necessity but the morality of that alliance? It is the principle of the lesser evil. As Churchill once famously said, "If I were told that the devil were on poorer terms with Hitler, I should find myself making an alliance with hell...
...pink brassiere: on one cup, it bears the legend "Bust the Pakistanis"; on the other, there's a picture of a Pakistani missile with a red line through it. To the delight of the Sri Lankan supporters, even Pakistan's nuclear arsenal can't save Rashud's team from defeat on this steamy evening in Colombo...