Word: nation
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...Clarkson (25-11-1, 18-4-0 ECAC, 1st place) simply is the class of the ECAC this year. Already ranked in the top ten in the nation, it should have no difficulty claiming first overall in the conference. Cole, Brent Huskins, and Shawn Grant were named to the preseason All-ECAC roster...
Colgate did not graduate anyone of significance last year, meaning that it still has captain Andy McDonald (21, 25). McDonald is being touted as a Hobey Baker Candidate and while he certainly is not the best player in the nation, he is among the elite...
Senior netminder Scott Stirling will once again be the star for the Bears. Ranked 5th in the nation with a .922 save percentage and a .266 goals-against average that placed him 12th in the country, Stilring will be expected to hold down the fort for Brown...
...Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind should have dulled the shock. Bloom wrote that "rock music has one appeal only, a barbaric appeal, to sexual desire--not love, not eros, but sexual desire undeveloped and untutored." Because sexual desire is universal, pop music "knows neither class nor nation." Consequently, pop music is a sort of teenage Esperanto: Every pubescent youth, regardless of nationality, should be attracted to the "masturbatorial fantasy" it promises...
...doesn't get uglier than this in American politics: Management vs. Labor; Donkey vs. Elephant. That trend was reinforced on Monday with a new plan by the nation's largest association of business owners to step up its support of business-friendly congressional candidates. Portraying itself as the striving entrepreneur being bullied by both big labor and big government, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce unleashed its first-ever plan to donate directly to federal-level political campaigns; about $100,000 will be donated to each of 47 mostly Republican congressional candidates. The chamber says it is worried by many...