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Having spent a semester abroad in Ireland surrounded by a group of mostly-observant American Catholics, I can assure you that we were on the exact same page when it came to the importance of birth control—whether or not we disagreed on abortion. And the same goes for the morning-after pill. I don’t want to make any sweeping generalizations about anyone’s religion, but instead to say that many young people are frank and pragmatic when it comes to sex, and might not be pleased to hear politicians condemning their behavior...
...takes a rare talent to make indoor baseball practice work inside a place like Palmer-Dixon. It takes a rarer talent to convert that practice into wins—13 in the Ivies last year, to be exact. Walsh, Harvard’s head coach, has it in spades. He’s a salty old cod, a jovial man bent on making games worth playing: he hasn’t had a losing Ivy season in ten years...
Conroy said the Eli plan will affect “hundreds of families,” but declined to provide exact figures. He said the number of students who will qualify for increased aid under the new policy is “in the double digits” percentage-wise...
Let’s go even further. What if three teams are tied with 11-3 records? Most of the league cheered that result in 2002, when Penn, Princeton, and Yale each finished the season with that exact record. The excitement of the playoff atmosphere consumed the league. But what if Penn had found an extra point against Columbia during the league’s opening weekend. Likewise, what if Princeton had fallen to the Lions 49-48 on the final weekend of the season, rather than taking the contest by the same margin. It’s not hard...
...hilarious in his criticisms of the New York Times, and me in particular,” Sanger recalls. “Basically he [attacked] the certainty that the Times has that we’re right when we’re describing a set of events—the exact same critique one hears about Larry...