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...were glad to show what we could do again against Penn.” The women had all they could handle in the form of the Quakers. The foil fencers lost a close 5-4 matchup, in which freshman Artemisha Goldfeder competed despite immense pain from a finger injury sustained earlier in the week. The saber suffered a 6-3 defeat, as freshman Eva Rosenberg posted the only winning record at 2-1. After suffering a close 5-4 defeat last weekend the women’s epee rebounded by going 9-0 against Boston College on Thursday. The squad...
William James is the archetypal masked villain of American academia. Seldom seen on curricula, mentioned in hushed tones, his finger is seen on every subject from linguistics to comparative government. His ideological foes curse his philosophical ideas as self-evident and foolish, but few have been around him long enough to even know what they’re denouncing. In his ambitious book on James, biographer Robert Richardson illuminates the life and ideas of this oft-cited father of pragmatism with unprecedented clarity, though many of his attempts to legitimate James’ thought only deepen the subject?...
...just made a face. I'm not like Christopher Hitchens, who likes nothing more than giving an audience the finger. I just thought, it would take me all night to get anywhere with this. During the summer war in the Middle East there were white middle-class demonstrators waddling around under placards saying, we are all Hizballah now. They're suffering from what Paul Berman calls rationalist naivete. They think there must be historical reasons why this is happening, and this is all our fault. If someone's got dark skin, there's a very good chance that...
...junta has claimed that forces loyal to you were responsible for the New Year's Eve bombings in Bangkok. How do you respond? I absolutely deny any connection. [Those responsible] must be brought to justice. Pointing a finger at somebody else, without evidence and investigation, is not right...
...holders, some place the ball on the ground with one finger, others with two or more. Koy Detmer, a quarterback by trade, holds his thumb and forefinger on the tip of the ball. "I pinch it like a nipple," says Detmer, who held for the Philadelphia Eagles from 2000 to 2005, and was brought back just for this year's playoffs after Eagles punter Dirk Johnson botched a late-season snap (with Detmer holding, Eagles kicker David Akers hit a 38-yard field goal with no time left to give the Eagles a 23-20 playoff victory over...