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...Crimson and the Tigers each had plenty of scoring opportunities, trading penalty corners near the end of regulation. A Harvard corner with four minutes to play resulted in a strong shot from co-captain Devon Shapiro, but Wray made the save. The Tigers were awarded a corner with mere seconds left in the game that they failed to convert, and the game remained scoreless at the end of regulation. However, Princeton dominated the 6-on-6 sudden-death overtime period, outshooting the Crimson, 4-0. The difference in the game, however, came on penalty corners. The Tigers were awarded four...
...tapped to head one of Louisiana's university systems. Two years later, he served in the Bush Administration as an assistant secretary in the Department of Health and Human Services. He first ran for governor in 2003 at the age of 32, losing by a mere four percentage points to current Democratic Governor Kathleen Blanco. That defeat was attributed to his relative lack of elective experience and the potential racial discomfort in the state's rural north. Blanco, whose fortunes fell rapidly after the perceived bungling of her administration during and following Katrina, decided not to run for reelection, leaving...
...Unfortunately, Wintner suffered another injury—this time a fractured rib, a common rowing injury—shortly after the varsity lineups were released. The injured rib kept him off the water for several weeks and came at the worst possible time, mere days before the Crimson was to take to the starting line in a season-opening race at Brown.“This was a couple days before our first race of the season, so I was in the varsity for a total of about three days,” Wintner said.After long...
...world is a more or less opaque manifestation of the real world—which can conveniently only be accessed by philosophers. Rorty lauds the German Idealists and the Romantic poets for their rejection of external reality, but, in their fetishization and spiritualization of the Self, he sees mere Platonic claptrap. In Rorty’s view, humans and the world have no fixed essence or meaning. Instead, they are in perpetual flux, constantly dissolved and recreated by the language we use to make sense of our experience...
...might amaze many that the mere prospect of Hillary Clinton moving back in to the White House can inspire such a degree of mercenary desertion in our country’s chaste crusaders. Granted, she has long served as the anathema of the American right, but in substance she’s just as pro-choice, just as tough on guns, and perhaps less Orwellian a presence than Giuliani. Both of these frontrunners have shrunk away from adopting any novel idea in favor of the senseless and discouraging groupthink we euphemize as “electability...