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...Steven Kan...
This year's Crimson squad has a more balanced attack than others in the past. This year's starters include senior Mike Johnson, Junior Chad Barker and sophomore Jeff Zimmerman setting the hole, Co-Captains Todd Forman and Peter Richards, and senior Steve Kan on the outside. The starting goalie is junior Danny Oakes...
Returning starters for the Crimson include senior drivers Steve Kan and Peter Richards, junior two-meter hole set Chad Barker and junior goalies Danny Oakes and Peter Toot. Both Barker and Richards received second team All-Ivy and All-New England recognition last season. Harvard is also counting on the return of senior Co-Captains Todd Forman and Mike Johnson, both starters on the '89 squad...
...Kan ya makan: the Arabic language is capable of magical effects. On a squalid Cairo street early on a cold, foul day, people greet each other with small bouquets of words: "Morning of blessings! Morning of light!" They have conjured a moment, and smiled, and passed, and then, poof! they are back on a miserable street among the pariah dogs. If people are poor and live in the desert, language may be their richest possession: Why not? It opens miraculously onto other worlds. The Koran, with its bursts of sonority and light, describes a paradise that has everything the desert...
...Kan ya makan is intoxication enough. It was out of the desert that humans conjured monotheism -- absolute God to suffuse utter emptiness. When kan ya makan enters politics, its genius makes language a reality superior to the deed -- even renders the facts of the objective world unnecessary and graceless. The vivid hallucination becomes the act: the prophecy is more satisfying than its literal fulfillment. If the demagogue-bard says the infidel will swim in his own blood, then words have pre-empted the work of armies. Ambiguity has an ancient history in the West, but the Middle East...