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...following this powerful start, the Crimson lost momentum, falling in five consecutive matches at the St. John’s Invitational. The remainder of the season followed this high and low trend, resulting in a formidable 3-0 performance at the Beanpot followed by a fourth-place finish at the Ivy League conference tournament...
Staller won the silver medal at the Garret Penn State Open, and teammates sophomore James Hawrot and freshman Thomas Kolasa captured fifth in their respective weapons. In the Ivy League Championships, the men finished tied for second place after defeating Yale, Brown, and Columbia and falling to Penn and Princeton. Staller and freshman Ben White earned first-team All-Ivy honors while Kolasa, Hawrot, and co-captain Karl Harmenberg were named to the second team...
...though the signal-caller from Tulsa may lack the size and the pocket presence of his predecessor, Winters flourished in his first year as the starter, leading the Crimson (7-3, 6-1 Ivy) to a second-place finish in the Ancient Eight and more importantly, perhaps, a thrilling come-from-behind 14-10 victory in The Game...
...regenerated” social world. Individuals had rights, of course, but these rights were to find their true meaning, or so the French revolutionaries supposed, in a highly communitarian definition of what citizenship should be. The idea of free-standing pioneers and lonesome cowboys struggling on alone in distant places on some lonely trek has no place in French folklore. And while the Revolution was not as successful as its early proponents had hoped, some of that publicly defined universalism from 1789-1794 survives in French consciousness to this...
...heart, full as it is with the memories of a French childhood, I do so dislike the burka that outlawing it in France seems to me to be more or less acceptable, even if that should not be the case in the United States. It has no place in French life and history, and outlawing the burka might well have been one of the very few items of public policy on which Robespierre and Marie-Antoinette, or Joan of Arc and the Marquis de Sade, would have readily agreed...