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...large boulder up a hill. Whenever he seemed to reach the top, the boulder would come crashing down the hill and thus he never reached his salvation. Similarly, the Crimson (4-9, 0-4) has repeatedly come so close to victory, but each time it has been unable to grasp the really big, season making wins...
Barry Sheck has a keen grasp of legal minutiae but not the traffic code. The O.J. defense lawyer was stopped by cops after making an illegal U-turn in Manhattan and issued summonses for two other minor offenses. "I can't believe this is a story," said Scheck...
...ventilation will undoubtedly be a problem when an exercise room is located underground and is barely able to grasp air through its barred windows leading to the glorious outdoors. It sounds like a prison, but really it's great. Where else can you sample a bit of body odor from each of your schoolmates...
...important for us to grasp what might be called the inner structure of this worldwide movement. It is precisely its global character which offers us its first and fundamental key and confirms that there are indeed universal human rights, rooted in the nature of the person, rights which reflect the objective and inviolable demands of a universal moral law. They also remind us that we do not live in an irrational and meaningless world. On the contrary, there is a moral logic which is built into human life and which makes possible dialogue between individuals and peoples. If we want...
...HUNDRED YEARS AGO, W.E.B. DUBOIS ascribed a "double consciousness" to black Americans that created the feeling of living in a country within a country. Certain black intellectuals have perceived that separateness as allowing blacks to see America more clearly than the rest of America sees itself, and to grasp the cruelty and injustice that much of the country seeks to deny. LeRoi Jones compared the black person in America to someone locked in one room of a big house: "If you never go into that room, you don't know anything about [it]. If I come out of that room...