Word: knee
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...spending time with your wife or children-something multiple deployments have taken away. The Army is at a crossroads, and the only way to prevent a further decline in readiness and fighting ability is by electing leaders who have a clear, attainable vision for the future, not a shortsighted, knee-jerk reaction to everything. Name Withheld, U.S. Army, Baghdad...
Blind ideology, regardless of its source, is anathema to a healthy and just politics. The danger indeed, as these knee-jerk editorials revealed, lies in unwittingly following an ideology to its logical conclusion. Once you have made that leap, like Burke, “in the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista,” you will see “nothing but the gallows...
...four different players scored goals and the Yale defense held Harvard to just two shots.The Crimson suffered a serious blow on offense 10 minutes into the quarter when Carle Stenmark—second on the team in scoring—went down with a blow to his right knee. The senior was taken off on a cart and would not return to the game, although the injury was not deemed serious.Having lost one of its offensive weapons, the Crimson never had any solid scoring opportunities in the quarter.“I just think they were a little more composed...
...firing of Don Imus makes me cringe. Through all the talk of the shock-jock’s insult to Rutgers’ women’s basketball, the meaning of his words for women’s sports has somehow been woefully lost. The networks’ knee-jerk response—silencing Imus —fails miserably to deal with the question at hand: why are women’s sports still a joke...
...exemplified by today.” Shuman led the competition during the first two rounds on Saturday, only to finish in fourth place yesterday. The freshman ended up two strokes behind the individual champion, Columbia’s Chris Condello. Shuman said he was “knee deep in divets” during the third round, which he finished seven strokes over par. Freshman Danny Mayer finished 19th individually, scoring 21 strokes over par. He had three birdies during the second round, his best round of the weekend. “My ball striking, my putting were just...