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...want to put these people here through having to defend me on this issue," Father Spagnolia told me later Friday afternoon. Did he think Lowell would continue to support him? "I really don't know." Was his credibility ruined? "We will find out." Why had he told me what he told me? "The only way I can respond to that is my overall attitude..." He paused. "I wanted to cut off the private aspect of those four or five years. I wanted it kept to itself. I found myself saying those kinds of things. That does not mean...
...government has done little to defend one of its prized monopolies. But as other formerly protected franchises (such as telephone companies) have discovered, there often is no defense when offshore competitors muscle in with new technology. "The Jockey Club hasn't kept up with reality," says Louis Hop Lee, chief of sales for Asia for www.horsepower2.com, a website that takes bets on the outcome of cartoon horse races. Lee says the Jockey Club should be taking advantage of the Internet to diversify beyond SAR borders. "It's the same old story," says Lee. "Small, nimble startups are moving first...
...We’re not tough enough,” Carville said. “America will not trust a party to defend America which will not defend itself...
...heard it said that the wackiness of Harvard liberals makes rational students on this campus more conservative when they leave than they were when they got here. MacKenzie’s ridiculous assertions that it is better to be sucked into a vacuum (the abortion method he cites to defend the humaneness of the procedure) than to be born into a non-ideal situation certainly serves to make many moderate and rational students rethink whether they want to be associated with such “pro-choice” radicals. The same is true for his assertion that women...
...Harvard to defend its title, though, it will take more than just a two-and-a-half minute, stellar individual performance. Last season, the Crimson needed eight finishers in the top five to clinch the tournament’s top spot. Similar success would be required to repeat as champions...