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...Freshman forward Evan Harris got well acquainted with SMU’s wood floor on Wednesday, suffering several hard knocks at the hands of Mustang post players. Two different players—SMU’s Bamba Fall and Brian Morris—were whistled for flagrant fouls against Harris in the second half. The first foul left Harris wincing and nursing a sore knee, but he eventually stepped to the line and sank 1-of-2 free throws. Morris’ flagrant foul came with just 0:15 left in the game after Harris scored on a pretty finger...
...alumni networks, whose influence keeps these bastions of Harvard’s social elite rooted so firmly in the past. Though Yale’s equivalents to these societal menaces are more widely known around the world, Harvard’s havens of all-male exclusivity are no less flagrant in their preservation of an outdated kind of style...
...time has come for the U.S., which acts as a regional balancer in North Asia, to provide some balance. The first step: the U.S. should declare the bankruptcy of the six-party process. Then Washington should impose real-time penalties on Pyongyang, the world's most aggressive and flagrant nuclear proliferator. The Bush Administration recently finalized its North Korea dream team of diplomats with John Bolton's appointment as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The roster is now in place for the administration's hard-liners to move beyond the gab factory...
...problems faced by Jews since their earliest days in America--and Silberman covers most of them--the endless struggle over identity seems most fraught with anguish. Early arrivals in the new country found a society more tolerant than it was to become after the Civil War. Flagrant anti-Semitism of the sort familiar to 20th century Americans was born (or at least blurted forth) in Saratoga, N.Y., in 1877, when fashionable Hotel Manager Henry Hilton turned away Investment Banker Joseph Seligman and publicly announced: "No Israelites shall be permitted in the future...
...parents' behavior in them: "Pat was a two-fisted drinker. Cy was a drunk, charming and good-humored when sober, combative and cold-eyed when drunk." Liquor fueled fights between them, as did their constant lack of money. They also, Cyra recognized later, baited each other with flagrant infidelities: "Pat and Cy competed in sexual conquest as they competed in everything else...