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...With the team, coming out with the same passion for every game will be key for us and always play above our competition,” Shaw said. “The Ivy games all have so much emotion in them because they all mean something...
...ever seen this in a Harvard uniform before,” Crimson coach Joe Walsh says. “I don’t think you’d see that unless you’re a San Francisco Giants fan in 2007, if you know what I mean...
...course of world politics. John F. Kennedy's 1963 trip to Berlin was notable for the speech expressing support for a free West Germany, but infamous because of the four words he used to drive the point home: "Ich bin ein Berliner," which can be interpreted to literally mean "I am a jelly-filled doughnut." Some reports say the statement wasn't mocked in Berlin at the time, but this hardly matters. In popular memory, Kennedy committed an embarrassing gaffe, something presidents try hard not to do while abroad, where they operate under more scrutiny than usual...
...have to have a job. Will that - or a version of that - be me? Right now, I've got money for a new subway pass, it's true, but I don't want to spend it. Just because this economy hasn't come for me yet doesn't mean that it won't. (See which businesses are bucking the recession...
...emotion that results from feeling that somebody is responsible for something, and could have acted differently," he says. For many, "the bankers did it wrong, and they did it wrong because they were greedy. That's what makes people angry." Still, getting wound up doesn't necessarily mean changing the world. Being heard, Klandermans says, is often enough. "In any demonstration, you will find people are there for no other reason than expressing how upset they are, next to people who seriously believe it may make a difference...