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...porous defense against an admittedly sloppy American side quickly made mincemeat of such ambitious predictions. Afterward, Portugal's celebrated forward Luis Figo, looking visibly exhausted and nursing a chronic injury, said in subdued tones: "All I want to say is that I would like to play without feeling any pain." For his part, Portuguese coach Antonio Oliveira blamed the paltry amount of time his team had to prepare for the Cup: "Everybody knows the Americans have been training for six months. We've had so little time and so many injuries...
Attempts to rein in the revelry continued into the eighteenth century. The College passed a rule in 1722 to prevent students from providing “distilled liquors or any Composition made therewith, upon pain of being fined twenty shilling and the forfeiture of the provisions and liquors, to be seized by the tutors...
Commencement means beginning. As we continue into the real world and real life, what could be a more appropriate beginning than this—Yasin turning our pain of last fall into a hope for a new beginning and some moral direction? He’s not saying we have to agree with all his moral decisions—maybe you disapprove of HLF, and maybe you don’t. But the speech doesn’t have anything to do with HLF. Like most graduation speeches, it has to do with you. Yasin is saying that each individual...
Siilats had been told her injury would go away in three days. Instead it took months for the pain to subside and for her to resume training. She says though her leg is almost healed now, it still gets tired faster than usual and limits her practice and competition...
...expect, and it competes not only with the more positive sense of satisfaction I have about my Harvard experience but with the seemingly truer, more straightforward anxiety that I did anticipate. There was a moment at the end of my sophomore year when I foresaw the pain that graduation would bring. In a half-empty room strewn with boxes during spring exam period, in an almost mystical moment of clarity, I saw the end—I realized that I would have to leave what I was beginning to love, that the people that made me happy would...