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Despite my fear, I decided to plan a vacation in Europe for Spring Break. The trip seemed so far away that I was safe. Slowly but surely, however, my unease about travel grew from an ominous flicker on the horizon when planning the trip to a tangible approaching reality. As the date of my imminent departure grew near, doubt gave way to panic attacks. The attacks would hit me at random times during the day, usually beginning with a heavy lurch of the stomach. Then came the short mental picture of the inside of a plane, oxygen masks down, plummeting...
...change necessary to update Japanese society's relationship with the rest of the world and its peoples is not on the horizon, not yet. Gerontocracy keeps younger talent away from powers of decision making, resulting in a US-bound brain drain, a Europe/New York City-bound arts drain, and, more depressing for a father-to-be, a "dream drain": a pervasive acceptance that a creative and fulfilled life in a human-friendly environment lies only in the Paris of Am?lie, the Rome of Audrey Hepburn's Holiday and the Canada or Hawaii of Japan Travel Bureau brochures. An economy gnawed...
Wisconsin-Green Bay (24-6), Horizon League champion...
...three of those conferences—the Horizon League, the Mid-Continent Conference, and the Patriot League—all had teams within 11 spots of Harvard in the RPI, and these teams could be seeded above Harvard if either their RPI improves due to conference tournament wins, or if they are seeded above the Crimson due to criteria other than the RPI. The advantage other teams have is in victories over Top 100 teams, of which Harvard has none. Harvard’s advantage over the other teams is that it’s undefeated since January?...
When actual storm clouds loom on the horizon--terrorism, recession, government scandal--people long for a tempest in a teapot. That's just what the skating brouhaha provided, and it's what the Games provide as a whole. The fog of war, which we hear so much about these days, doesn't apply on the men's downhill course or the bobsled track. The distances of Olympic events are fixed. Five hundred meters. A thousand. No more, no fewer. The times are measured to the hundredth of a second by instruments that don't waver. No messy relativism...