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...captains. “[Connolly and Tune] are veterans who have been there,” the sophomore said. “When we were down they rallied us. They’re guys we look up to, since they’ve been playing a high level of water polo for a long time.” The Crimson will certainly look to steady leadership, both from players and head coach Erik Farrar, as it works to remedy its inconsistent play. “[Coach Farrar] seems encouraged with how we’ve been doing on offense...
...state level, the percentages are even higher. Early voting accounted for almost 30% of Montana ballots in 2006 and 34% of votes in the state's primary this June. In Colorado, county clerks estimate that almost half of active voters in this year's general election will vote before Election Day; in some particularly competitive counties, as many as 60% are expected to vote at early-voting centers...
McCain seems pumped up by the greater enthusiasm and larger crowds Palin has brought into his life and campaign. So far, he does not seem troubled that the energy level falls (or that some head towards the exits) once she has turned the stage over to him. The thumping pop and country tunes that used to seem somewhat discordant at McCain rallies now enhance the animated atmosphere and Americana vibe...
What was "it"? In Infinite Jest Wallace wrote--in a passage that now reads like a lucid cell-phone call from the pilot of a crashing 747--that clinical depression is "lonely on a level that cannot be conveyed ... Everything is part of the problem, and there is no solution. It is a hell for one." What Wallace suffered was both agonizing and indescribable, even by him. And that last may have been what made it unbearable. Like Hamlet--who gave Infinite Jest its title--he had that within which passeth show. Even if he could have written...
...these hallowed halls with only a public-school education. The point of this measure wouldn’t be to close any doors, but rather to throw them open—because it would leave both ex-private-schoolers and heretofore marginalized public-schoolers on the same level playing field...