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...gave us a chance, but we can’t expect to, night in, night out, have success scoring one or two goals, so we’ve got to find a way to be more aggressive offensively,” Donato said...
...leading suffragists were raised in Quaker homes. As one Friends school catalog put it in 1864: "Girls, do not believe that you were created for nothing but to play, dance, sing, read novels and flirt ... You need not study medicine or law or become female ministers, or ever expect to become President of the United States; but be something more than mere dolls ... Cultivate your intellect and your heart, and prove to the world that 'all men and women are created equal.' " When Sidwell Friends founder Thomas Sidwell married teacher Frances Haldeman in 1887, he made her co-principal...
...town whose historical importance—it was once Canada’s colonial capital—has been sucked out of it by the growth of its two metropolitan neighbors. The university, meanwhile, has endured, as has a significant coterie of townsfolk—as one might expect, the two are at constant loggerheads...
...Pirahã language and grammar to dispute his claims.Nevins and company also draw attention to other, equally serious concerns about the characterization of the Pirahã people. “Given the inevitable impression left when one describes a people primarily in terms of what they lack, we would expect this sort of characterization would be offered only as a last resort—and on the basis of the firmest possible evidence. We have argued that in the present instance, the evidence is anything but firm. Hence our discomfort.” Professor Pinker, on the other hand, sees...
...last year. Former HoCo co-chair and self-proclaimed Pforzheimer “House elf” Brandon P. Geller ’08 called Jim McCarthy a “gentleman explorer” who possesses knowledge that one wouldn’t typically expect of an academic. “He hasn’t been to a mechanic since 1976—he’s repaired his own car since then. He has a champagne tasting for the seniors at the end of the year and he also knows about his wines and all those sorts...