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...lesson to be had. If Tampa Bay can survive the indignity of changing its name from the Devil Rays to exorcise the stink of failure, and Philadelphia can bounce back from the shame of losing the 1993 World Series to Canadians, there's promise for our subprime nation. Rooting for these teams represents the triumph of hope over experience--and that's as American as baseball...
Criticizing Obama by suggesting he isn't American enough is absurd. America is a nation of immigrants; they built it and thrived in it. I would say that because Barack Obama exemplifies this melting pot, he is more American than many of us. But this brand of attack is not new, as the article implies. I think of the 1920s and the red scare and the extreme nationalism that led to immigrant quotas. Don't we all look back at that time and shudder at how we treated those who came from another place? Our incredible ingenuity, our innovation...
...with a war, at least while we're still in the middle of fighting it. The country was too busy trying to win World War II (and too unified in support of the war) to sit through many plays about it. Even the last war that dramatically divided the nation, Vietnam, got far less attention onstage; with antiwar protests more urgent and impassioned (thanks largely to the draft), artistic comment took a backseat to political action. David Rabe, author of a memorable trilogy based on his combat experiences in Vietnam, recalls getting "turned down everywhere" before his first play...
...junior tailback Jordan Culbreath. A quick and physical runner who has already posted 481 yards and four touchdowns this season, Culbreath is going up against a Harvard defense that hasn’t quite been itself lately against the run.The Crimson defensive corps has gone from tops in the nation to middle of the pack in the Ivies so far this season. In last weekend’s 27-24 win over Lehigh, the team allowed an opponent to rush for over 100 yards for just the first time in three years, but that doesn’t mean guys...
...Young people want a president like Clinton because, a) they remember him, and b) they remember that his administration was a time of prosperity in America,” said IOP Director of Polling John Della Volpe. “Most importantly, our nation was respected in the world...