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About this time the audience began to grasp that there was less than an hour between them and the last time they would see Luna. Cries of “Say it ain’t so, Dean!” shot stageward, leading Wareham to preface a song with an ironic reply of “Let the healing begin...
...stopped cheering when President Summers makes his “appearance” at the Harvard football games. I understand why he feels he needs to show up there, and I also don’t attempt to delude myself into thinking he has a grasp of what Harvard’s record is, where the team stands in the Ivy League race, or even what the score of the game is. (One could call this the Manny Ramirez approach, except Manny’s a better dresser). Instead, I just chant “playoffs,” over...
Perhaps that’s why I don’t grasp the sense of shock that hit our campus last Tuesday, or the letdown on Wednesday, when Kerry graciously accepted the inevitable. As the Democratic Party increasingly finds its hatred of the President replaced with uncertainty and disbelief, I imagine they will turn to themselves and ask “how this could happen,” and, “what should...
Though they’re still giddy from their recent victory, I’m sure many Red Sox fans can still quote a thousand and one times when a World Series title was within grasp, when one more strike, one less error, meant victory, when the only possible reason that a championship banner didn’t get hung at Fenway was the existence of a curse...
...perceive. After 9/11 Bush benefited from the public's willingness to suspend its skepticism and go along with his audacious vision for transforming the Middle East. Some of that trust, however, was squandered with the invasion of Iraq--and so the challenger finds the presidency within his grasp. Kerry may yet win as a result of the collapse of Bush's vision. But if he does, the scale of the challenges facing the new Commander in Chief will demand that he find one of his own. --With reporting by Massimo Calabresi/Washington