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...During his time in office, Bok did little to add to the University’s coffers. From the outset, the Corporation “made it clear that they didn’t expect me to engage in major fundraising,” Bok said...
...felt that with the core players that we had...we would be at the top of the ECAC and contend for our league title and hopefully the national title, but for whatever reason, it wasn’t meant to be.”The Crimson struggled from the outset, dropping its first three games for the first time since the 1951-52 campaign.“We started out with a tough schedule,” senior Justin Tobe said. “I don’t want to say the team got down, but it was definitely...
...must say at the outset that I am loath to pen my name to yet another piece on the man. Critics understand that our judgments often take on lives of their own—write too much about somebody, and you risk spurring a dozen contrarians to their defense. Or one might draw attention to bad ideas. But I make an exception in the case of Cornel West, where I feel the truth cannot be repeated often enough. Cornel West raps like a 12-year old girl...
...video’s outset, director Sean Wainsteim matches the video’s imagery to the song’s lyrics. As lead singer Dave Monks sings, “Do your neighbor a favor / Collect their morning paper / And clip out all the sad bits, no one wants to read that,” the middle-aged man confusedly examines a newspaper that has parts...
Most long-held historic narratives have the Jamestown colony threatening the Powhatan from the outset, making them unremittingly hostile in turn, but that was not the case. The Powhatan hoped to make the Strangers into allies, and even absorb them, not realizing until too late that the English intended to do the same to them. Chief Powhatan's people knew they had numerous advantages over the foreigners in the first few years after 1607. First and foremost, the native people outnumbered them by more than 500 to 1 in the colony's first two years. Not until the 1620s would...