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Individually, he passed for over 1,800 yards and 15 touchdowns, led the Ivy League in pass efficiency, and averaged a league-high 11.9 yards per completion, good enough to earn second-team All-Ivy honors. On the ground, Winters rushed for 295 yards and three touchdowns, tied for the second-most of any quarterback in the Ancient Eight...
...leadership, Winters followed up his debut performance with an even more impressive showing against Brown the following week. In a 24-21 victory, Winters earned Ivy Offensive Player of the Week honors by completing 18 of 27 passes for 223 yards and two touchdowns while rushing for a game-high 66 yards and one touchdown...
...just how it was supposed to be. We were so different but, somehow, once Nick brought his old red futon into our room, things started changing. Nick and I were like Bert and Ernie—no homo. My jeans were skinny, his loose. My voice loud and high, his deep and low. My boyfriends loved chatting with his girlfriends as they sat on our futon waiting for us before double dates. Nick and I invited people over in the early evening to sit and drink on our futon. We ate drunk food late at night on the futon...
Looking back, the past decade appears as a succession of collisions between the optimism of 2000 and brutal reality. If there is a consistent theme to the past 10 years, it is that we have consistently underestimated the likelihood and impact of negative, high-consequence events. The assumption that a past run of peace and prosperity is assured for the future has led us to confuse wishful thinking with disciplined planning and preparation...
...like Nick George, the Pomona student who was arrested, handcuffed, detained, and questioned for nearly five hours at the Philadelphia airport because he packed his English-Arabic flash cards to study on the plane back to school; Constance McMillen, the Mississippi student who was not allowed to attend her high school prom with her girlfriend; people who worry that Arizona’s new law will lead to their being stopped and questioned by officers who think they look foreign-born; and thousands of others. But I hope you can answer her question about why we should care about "that...