Word: deservedness
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"In my 21years of coaching, I've never had something like this happen before," he said after Harvard blew a 13 point lead with 4:00 to go at Cornell in 1999. "Cornell deserved to win, but not because they were the better team."
It shouldn't have ended this way for captain Mike Clare. The senior offensive lineman, who is roundly respected by his teammates and coaches alike, deserved better than that yesterday. For all the work and sacrifice of the last four years, he at least merited the opportunity to taste victory...
But I disagree with those who would only pass it off as just that- "youthful indiscretion" associated with a football game. For all the hype and attention accorded to The Game, there really is a reason to capitalize it. Not because of the tailgate, not because of the media, and...
Although today electors dwell in deserved obscurity, they still have to gather, usually in their state's capital, a month or so after Election Day and actually cast votes. They have carried out that task with admirably robotic precision: only nine have ever failed to vote as they pledged. But...
As war was breaking out between the two camps, there was one corner of political cordiality in America on Thursday night, and it happened, of all places, as close to the presidency as any of the two pretenders could hope to be last week, and between the two men who...