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...truth universally acknowledged that one’s Facebook.com profile is closely correlated to one’s success in the sack. Attractive Facebook.com photos often lead to sexual victories; landscape profile pics usually suggest an unattractive lone ranger. Now, thanks to PeopleRadar, the game has become official. PeopleRadar, Facebook.com’s recent addition to its development platform, allows users to rank profile photos on a scale of 1 to 10. “I’d been thinking about doing a ‘Hot or Not’ site for students,” says...
...crease and poked a puck away from Cornell center Michael Kennedy. Similarly, in the third period, Tobe thwarted a Big Red 5-on-3 scoring opportunity when he sprawled out in front of the net to stymie the streaking Topher Scott. The goaltender’s lone blemish of the night came during that two-man advantage—a minor flaw in an otherwise standout performance. “When your career is winding down and you know you only have a couple of games left,” Reese said, “it really brings the best...
...that we need[ed] to have as a save.”Six days later, Tobe was in goal for his first ECAC start since Dec. 16. Despite having played just one full game in the past eight weeks, the senior was sharp, allowing a lone score in a 4-1 win.The victory was a feat to be celebrated, to be sure—but it also brought a sense of relief to Tobe.“I knew that if I went in and played poorly on Friday,” he explains, “it would have...
...might be a lone idiot, insulated from reality like all those delirious academics that Lacaria loves to demonize, but I’d much prefer deciphering evidence like the above to his favorite mode of historical writing: namely, “if Homer said it, it must have been true of the nineteenth century, and it must be true...
Court dissenters have also been crucial to the civil rights of African Americans. In 1896 the Supreme Court ruled that keeping blacks and whites separate but equal was just fine. Only Justice John Harlan found fault with that state of affairs, writing as the lone dissenter in Plessy v. Ferguson that "Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens." It would take more than a half-century, but the wisdom of his words finally persuaded the court to acknowledge in Brown that "'separate but equal' has no place" in public education...