Word: golde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard was led in part by freshman standout Scott Jaffe, one of the world's premier breaststrokers and a gold medalist at the National Sports Festival last summer...
This year, the Crimson is playing hockey the hard way. Guys are hanging out around the net, taking shots as cheap as J.C. Penney suits. Guys are pinning others guys to the boards and reading them their rights. Guys are going into the corners like there's gold buried there...
...MacDonald and Allen Bourbeau, theteam's top two scorers a year ago, are coming backnext year. They'll have a year of Olympic Teamexperience behind them. They'll have the hockeyknow-how to led Harvard to the gold...
...destructive impulse became much more systematic and serious after 1536, with Henry VIII's mass pillage of Catholic monasteries and churches. (In one raid on the shrine of the martyr Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, eight men were needed to carry all the gold out to the King's wagons.) Henry VIII - mainly wanted to raise money, but with Oliver Cromwell the vandalism turned ideological. The Roundheads were determined to erase every last trace of the image in English religious life, leaving only the abstract purity of the Word, the uncompromised Logos. Ordinary plunder, which spares wood and stone, became...
...because of its potential for harm? We have muddled through to a fairly good compromise: make the use illegal, but be extremely circumspect about enforcing the law. Illegality is important to prevent the predictably vast increase in use that would occur if you could get a pack of Acapulco Gold out of the machine that now gives you Kools. And non-prosecution is important because you don't persecute people for behavior that you find impossible to argue is morally wrong...