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Despite the loss, Waslh was optimistic about his team’s play against the Bulldogs...
...taking down a ranked opponent might seem less daunting than usual, since the Crimson has already beaten one—then-No. 19 CSU East Bay—two weeks ago. Meanwhile, the Bears have lost all three of their games against nationally-ranked opponents. While the loss to No.1 Southern California was perhaps not surprising, Brown’s loss against No. 18 UC Davis suggests that Harvard can be competitive with its rival...
Martel identifies Henry’s temporary loss of an authorial voice with that of the extinct animal and those of Holocaust victims. Martel also appears to take umbrage at the idea that the Holocaust must always remain a static concept. According to Henry, first-hand accounts of past suffering cannot accomplish the same emotional and intellectual challenge that a piece of fiction can. Martel’s book is therefore a revolutionary move written in protest against the reluctance to portray the Holocaust outside of non-fiction. Yet a simple look at the corpus of contemporary Western literature shows...
...facts are so hard that the nation's grubmongers are being advised to give up on pleasing a broad swath of society and instead concentrate on small, specific segments of the market. It's narrowcasting for the stomach and makes perfect cultural sense, but it's still a great loss. I, for one, am sad to see the Average Diner go. I related to him; he took me out of myself; I measured my appetites against his. Sometimes I gloried in my conformity, as when writing hosannas to the universal white-bun hamburger of old. At other times, the Average...
After taking two of the three matches in doubles—the only loss coming in a tiebreaker—the Crimson dropped only two sets combined in the six singles matches...