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...eight days, including a draining overtime showdown against New Hampshire the night before, the Crimson (12-2-1, 9-1-0 ECAC) hoped to clear up a number of questions. Will health be a nagging problem? Does the team have the mental and physical stamina it will need to grind through the season? Is Harvard ready to jump into the conference season against one of its toughest rivals?The game provided no concrete answers, but hinted toward progress in the right direction. The Crimson took control of the game early and never relinquished it against a physical Providence squad...
...would Senate Republicans choose the controversial Lott after an electoral drubbing that saw them lose, among other things, the hard-fought progress they had made with nonwhite voters, especially African Americans? And why pick someone who is known to have an ax to grind with the White House at a time when the party should regroup and unify...
...numbers. As it turned out, no sweet-talking was required. Official after official went on the record for Golden on the matter. The reasons for the rejections? One Korean student, applying from a top prep school, got pegged at MIT as “yet another textureless math grind.” At Vanderbilt, a former admissions staffer offered that Asians “are very good students, but don’t provide the kind of intellectual environment” that colleges are looking for. THE FIRST “MODEL MINORITY”On January...
...Army Times and Marine Times called for his resignation - even before John McCain declared he had lost confidence in Rumsfeld - the brash Secretary of Defense had lost almost all his allies inside the White House. Just the mention of his name would cause aides to the President to grind their teeth and roll their eyes. He had become a liability to the President, and his advisers knew it and resented it. If the choice had been theirs, Rummy would have been shown the door months, if not years, ago. And that was the White House. Rumsfeld never had allies...
Quality casual encounters, especially in public locations, are a bit difficult to engineer, but remember, if you wanted any old hookup, you could just get drunk and go to a sweaty room party and grind with someone you’ll probably see in Science A the next morning. Not all that appealing...