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...best ball of the season, but if Penn wants to get back on the podium it can ill afford a second league loss. Prediction: Penn 24, Brown 20.CORNELL (2-4, 0-3) VS. NO. 18 PRINCETON (6-0, 3-0)Wow. You’re in a fairy tale land. So pretty here. Don’t even bother with elective decision-making. Just sit back on the wings of a kindly dragon and enjoy this rainbow-shaded scenario while eating clouds made of cotton candy.Princeton’s senior QB Jeff Terrell, an archetype of toughness and experience...
...culture because it is based on the unperceivable and improvable. Wars have been motivated by all kinds of forces, but those fought for religious purposes are particularly long-lasting. The ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine is not solely about history and two nations’ desire for land; the conflict continues because it involves a clash of belief systems above all else. Understanding how humans are motivated by forces beyond the physical world is a very separate study than merely looking at cultural and historical influences. The difference is in the seen versus the unseen, the rational versus...
...might expect the administration’s aggressive attack on constitutional rights to raise a few eyebrows or even hackles in this, the land of the free. Instead, the dissolution of foundational legal principles, which predate this nation, seems to trouble very few in the nation’s mass media. On blogs, on the Internet, on Amnesty International, this dire situation received its due attention. But for some truly inexplicable reason, only a smattering of articles in the major news and a few television commentators denounced the president’s actions. Like the dog that didn?...
...late 1990s, delighted in blasting the Israeli political establishment. He is a former nightclub bouncer turned politician and businessman whose business dealings have been investigated at length by the Israeli police, although no charges have been filed. His plan to revoke the citizenship of Israeli Arabs and swap the land on which they live for the land on which West Bank settlements are built in order to maintain Israel's Jewish ethnic majority has been deonounced as "ethnic cleansing." In the past, he has suggested bombing banks, gas stations and populated areas of the Palestinian territories, and he said earlier...
Born in Newport, R.I., in 1775, Stuart set off for London as a young man to improve his portrait-painting skills under the tutelage of masters. He returned to his native land in the 1790s and ultimately settled in Boston. He painted more than 1,000 portraits before his death in 1828—including illustrious Harvard alums such as founding father John Adams, Class of 1755, and Kirkland, Class of 1789, a clergyman who led Harvard from 1810 to 1828 and presided over the establishment of the University’s law school...