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...first double-take, calling secular humanism a religion seems a contradiction in terms. Here the fundamentalists, of all people, have made "secular" and "religious" interchangeable ideas, rather than antonyms. By putting them on a par, the fundamentalists betray their real agenda: not just sheltering their religious beliefs, but building a shelter of intolerance against a whole range of other values and social practices...
...booters did get on the board at 26:23 on a D'Onofrio goal that was assisted by Nick Hotchkin--but that lone tally marked one of the few times that the Crimson offense played up to par. Over its previous four games, Harvard had scored a total of 11 goals in contests against MIT Columbia, Connecticut and Brandeis...
Putting an entire ethnic group on par with Lions, Tigers, and Bears seems rather degrading. A football team that calls itself the Indians is equating Native Americans with wild animals...
...over the globe. A number of plaques commemorate them: at Royal Birkdale in England, where a particular six-iron took the British Open; at Cherry Hills near Denver, where they told him he was too far behind in the U.S. Open, so he drove the first green, a par four, and won. A monument at Rancho Park records the 12 he made on a single hole in the Los Angeles Open. That's the first one he mentions. Once in Paris, Palmer drove a ball off the Eiffel Tower and hit a bus. "Close to 400 yds.," he boasts, "mostly...
...Jackie, "Did it stay on the green?" Sunday, they conferred over putts like sailors gauging breakers. "Looks like the left edge," Jackie would say. His father would laugh. "How about an inch out on the right?" So they compromised and holed it. That was for a three at the par-four ninth. Nicklaus faced a 25-footer for another birdie at ten. "Oddly enough I felt comfortable over it and made it." At eleven, a 20-footer rolled in "as pretty as can be." Rather than stall him, a bogey at twelve actually gave him steam. He birdied 13, eagled...