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...what is most difficult for the squad to swallow is not just this lack of championships, but how close the team has come. As the silvers and bronzes build up, the hope for gold, in many ways, is appearing farther and farther out of reach.Last season provides the perfect example. Radcliffe came out on fire during the spring dual season, notching impressive victories over Georgetown in the Class of 2004 Cup, national champion Wisconsin in the Knecht Cup, and then-No. 1 Princeton in the same event.With a No. 1 ranking intact, Radcliffe looked poised to make...
...department existed for critical studies of sexuality. Students interested in these issues sought out individual faculty members dispersed in departments throughout the university; the Committee on Women’s Studies, while sympathetic, rarely offered courses dealing specifically with sexuality. While combining the two fields may not be a perfect solution, I am glad that sexuality studies finally has a home, and that students have a forum to analyze the critical role that sexuality and sexual identity play in society...
...surprisingly balmy evening for mid-October in the northeastern Chinese city of Dandong, a soft breeze blowing tendrils of mist across the slate grey surface of the Yalu River. Sprawling for miles along the banks of the river, Dandong seems a perfect, bustling symbol of the "new" China. Brightly dresssed townspeople stroll along the tree-lined promenade, courting teenagers mixing with office workers and doting parents chasing a single, precious child, many of them toting shopping bags from nearby malls. But this is anything but a normal town, because just across the river stands the decrepit North Korean city...
...like when the narrative breaks to describe how much hotter Jennifer Connelly is compared to Kate Winslet. The subject matter is heavy, but the characters can be so quirky and the narrator’s non-judgmental explanation of their lives so deadpan, that it’s a perfect blend between the seriousness of “Bedroom” and the satirical tone of Alexander Payne’s adaptation of another Perrotta novel, “Election.” Perotta’s book is obsessed with detail, fleshing out every facet of these twisted characters...
Cheney: I think the economy is important, and important from the standpoint of public opinion, and public attitude. My belief is that it will have an impact on the election, and that, in fact, for most people things are pretty good. That doesn't mean it's perfect out there by any means. But I think back over all the years I've been involved in elections -- going back I guess, to the mid 60's - running, what, eight times as a candidate myself, and involved in a lot of others as staff capacity and so forth, I'm hard...