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...matter how hard you rooted for Brown in the quarterfinals or Vermont in the semis, deep in your heart you've been hoping for another Harvard-B.U. rematch. Thanks to last evening's Catamount fade and a heartbreaking loss for Cornell last night, we'll get what we've been waiting for tonight at 9 in the Garden...
...There is a hope in Israel that the PLO [Palestine Liberation Organization] will fade away, but there is also the belief that any moderate Palestinian group which seeks to negotiate with Israel will immediately be outflanked by extremists," he said...
...basketball playing; and of the two books I have from him--one of which is the Essential Works of Socialism--both of which he constantly insisted he needed and neither of which I returned. Of course, the books will go unreturned now, but the thoughts about Nick will not fade--what he gave us is more lasting than the books, if not quite as tangible...
Here, at least, as the lights fade and the mysterious lady and "le Petit Caporal" watch the dispatches burning in the dark, their faces glowing in the flickering flames, one wonders who has finally won, if Napoleon has conquered yet another woman, or if he has met his Fireloo...
...easy to convince yourself that the niceties you depend on should fade away so irrevocably. I enjoy listening to Beethoven on my stereo. I like to eat hot corned beef sandwiches. And there is nothing nicer than the feel of a shiny, newly-purchased copy of Keats. And yet the new austerity could produce some benefits, not so obvious at first, but no less long-ranging in their impact. Romantic asceticism would no longer be a viable philosophical alternative, and middle-class youths like myself would no longer feel compelled to renounce their roots. Americans would be a thinner, trimmer...