Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only team which can possibly tie Princeton is Harvard--that would happen only if Princeton fell to Penn and Harvard beat Dartmouth and Brown--the Tigers would win the tiebreaker due to their win over the Crimson. Therefore, Princeton will host the NCAA play-in game against the Patriot League champion on November...
...against innovative power-mongers and their diseased ideologies, which in our century have led other nations down the road to gas chambers and prison camps. You are wrong if you think that publishing my name and House affiliation will scare me into silence; I am proud to be a patriot and a conservative, and have never made a secret of my political beliefs. And you are wrong if you think that I "long to become a part of' your so-called "virtuous elite" (apparently composed of yourself, a few Harvard affiliates and a crooked politician, with some SOS members thrown...
Like Harvard, Lafayette's offense largely circulates around its ground game. Leading the charge for the Leopards (2-1, 0-0 Patriot League) is sophomore Leonard Moore, last year's Patriot League Rookie of the Year, who leads the league in rushing (110.0 yards per game...
Despite the nighttime drama at Doha--part of the U.S. force additions that include 4,700 ground troops, eight Stealth bombers, 23 F-16 fighters in Bahrain, a Patriot antimissile battery and 23 combat ships--military tensions seemed to diminish by day. The troops are officially embarked on a training mission dubbed "Intrinsic Action 96-3," hardly the ringing title of a real assault. Saddam stuck to his word, temporarily, by not firing at planes patrolling the no-fly zones. He appeared to be removing his antiaircraft missiles and mobile launchers. The U.S. stepped back from its threat of "disproportionate...
...both a kindly parent and a world-class rummy. Sober enough during the week, on paydays Malachy McCourt would guzzle away his wages at a pub and, late Friday night, stagger home, penniless. There, while his wife Angela wept and railed, he would coax his sons into singing old patriot tunes and roar that they must be ready to die for Ireland. Next morn, as oft as not, he would be too groggy for work. And thus was another job lost...