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...with a cramped left quadriceps and a burning desire for a do-over.“If I could only have that shot back,” Nguyen said, shaking his head. “Unbelievable.”What Nguyen could not believe, the crowd could still not grasp. Just one point earlier, down a match point, 10-9, Nguyen had persevered carefully through a forty-shot rally that had the crowd breathless and soundless.“It was that way the entire match—either someone was being broken or breaking right back...
...from its destination, killing him and 19 others. He was 35 years old. Five years later, Michel Majerus' bold, outsize talent has returned to the country of his birth, to a museum that may help gain for Luxembourg the artistic glory that was once within his grasp...
...loving, out-trading, exterminating her weaker blood.” Who can read this passage and remain oblivious to the intersection of gender, politics, and territorial expansion? I hope that I won’t need to point out the sexual innuendo in the passage for Mr. Lacaria to grasp its meaning...
...Iraq war was designed, at least in part, to free America from Riyadh's grasp. A friendly government in Baghdad would make the U.S. less reliant on Saudi oil. And a democratic government in Baghdad would pressure the kingdom to open its political system. Either Saudi Arabia's regime would change, or its relationship with the U.S. would change, or both...
...true reward of a liberal arts education is the ability to view the universe through the lenses of different ideas. Only by understanding the influential ideas of the the past can we grasp why our current ideas exist. The system that best develops this knowledge is a liberal arts system based on great books or great ideas, like Columbia’s Core...