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...right to use this fall. The fall season consists of only three meets, but all three are important. The squad opens at the Yale Invitational September 23-25. It then dives into the ECAC Championships October 7-10 and the Rolex Regionals November 4-6. Each meet bears the imprimatur of importance, even if only as general measures of the team's capabilities...
Before civility in politics completely broke down, George Bush gave midnight basketball the Republican imprimatur. In 1991 he visited the first such league, in Glenarden, Maryland. "The last thing midnight basketball is about is basketball," President Bush said at the time. "It's about providing opportunity for young adults to escape drugs and the streets and get on with their lives. It's not coincidental that the crime rate is down 60% since this program began...
...months after Woodstock, in November 1969, he published the first issue of Interview, his monthly that would lump together '40s screen goddesses, lustrous Europeans of vaguely aristocratic background and the very latest shoe designers. By virtue of the fact that Warhol had turned his placid gaze their way, the imprimatur of hip was attached to them...
Brown's work is emblazoned with a church imprimatur. And it will receive no quarrel from many Jewish religious scholars. From the beginning, says Judaic , studies professor Shaye J.D. Cohen of Brown University, the Jewish tradition "had no trouble accepting the simple story that Jews executed Jesus as a sinner and a criminal, even to the extent of ignoring the role of the Romans." In modern times, Jews have adopted more favorable opinions about Jesus, just as Christians have worked to eradicate lingering anti-Semitism. But Cohen considers revisionism about the trial "pointless" because Jews cannot reasonably expect Christians...
That's the way it is with Ivy League games this season, especially those involving the Crimson. The team bears the imprimatur of Captain Tarik Campbell, who himself has never been at a loss for intensity...