Word: patriotism
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...Facing the eventual tournament champion and heavy favorite, Harvard stole the first game and played the Eagles close throughout before falling, 3-1 (25-30, 30-20, 30-23, 30-24).American boasted a pair of 6’8 twins, Claire and Ann Recht, as well as 2006 Patriot League Player of the Year and tournament Most Valuable Player Rubena Sukaj, who went on to record 30 kills in the tournament final.“They are a very good team,” Mahon said. “We had a great match against them...
...this space, we’ll content ourselves with trying to figure out how they stack up against each other, or, this week, against opponents from equivalent conferences like the Patriot League. On to the picks for Week...
...through a paper mill to the tune of about $31.5 million, are glossed over as opposition propaganda. (Sharif denies the charges.) He even gets credit for standing up to the Indians at Kargil, and is lionized as a hero for the nuclear tests he conducted. "He is a true patriot," says Naveed Khawaja, a 40-year-old office worker in Rawalpindi...
What was supposed to be a celebration of my place on the President's reading list had turned into a debate about the Patriot...
Such cold-hearted prescriptions have shaped Machiavelli's reputation as the grand master of brutal pragmatism. But they reveal surprisingly little about the man himself - a statesman, poet, playwright and Florentine patriot who lived from 1469 to 1527. In his highly readable new biography, Machiavelli, Ross King paints a more complete picture of Florence's most misunderstood thinker and his tumultuous times. King's breezy narrative doesn't spare Machiavelli, depicting him as an intellectual who loved prostitutes as much as philosophy. But it does present the fresh and sympathetic hypothesis that Machiavelli may not, in fact, have been...