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Friedman also had some difficulties in the consolation round. After winning his first consolation match, Friedman lost to Syracuse's Jeff Duque--the second seed--and then lost to unseeded Scott Auker of Franklin and Marshall, 1-0, leaving him in sixth place...
Reina won his first consolation match but lost to another unseeded wrestler from Franklin and Marshall, Bryan Icenhower...
...pipe dream. Technology, whose image has suffered under a century's worth of dictators, Orwellian novels and a long cold war, is becoming a key to the revitalization of U.S. politics. The 1990s are witnessing technology's re-emergence in the healthier role foreseen by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, as an enabler and propagator of democracy...
...ultimately an entirely useless, self-referential experience, but telling yourself so is of no use because it is also totally absorbing. During, say, a 10-hour binge of speed chess, you tell yourself other things. You tell yourself it is a noble game. You tell yourself it was Ben Franklin's favorite pastime while ambassador to France ("I call this my opera," he would say, explaining his absence from the Paris opera). You tell yourself that Natan Sharansky kept his sanity in solitary confinement by playing mental chess against himself ("I always won," he recalls with satisfaction...
When asked how he feels about the California Avocado Sandwich, a guacamole, alfalfa sprout and cheddar cheese affair, Donald R. Franklin '98 responds, "Oh my God. I've had one at the Union, and I don't know what makes it from California as opposed to any other state." Franklin, who lives in San Diego, goes on to say, "Mexican Toppers--that's about the only thing they get right that's Mexican. I should know because I live right next to Mexico...