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What the Tigers also don't understand is that no one is disgusted by losing. If they did understand that, they wouldn't try to pretend it wasn't happening. There are 30 teams in baseball, and each year the 29 of them that are not the Yankees lose. The Boston Red Sox, who haven't won a World Series since 1918, aren't losers, because they play for the love of the game. I'm just kidding; the Red Sox are total losers. But even the Yankees aren't World Series champions in almost 75% of their seasons. Life...
...good politics on the Cambridge City Council to pretend that the universities “cost” the city. A better guide might be the rating agencies, which perennially cite the presence of Harvard and MIT as the key to the city’s fiscal good health...
...What the Tigers also don't understand is that no one is disgusted by losing. If they did understand that, they wouldn't try to pretend it wasn't happening. There are 30 teams in baseball, and each year the 29 of them that are not the Yankees lose. The Boston Red Sox, who haven't won a World Series since 1918, aren't losers, because they play for the love of the game. I'm just kidding; the Red Sox are total losers. But even the Yankees aren't World Series champions in almost 75% of their seasons. Life...
...chief of the CIA's Strategic Assessments Group, declined to comment specifically on the Iraq situation, but said that sharp questioning from top officials is a fact of life for intelligence analysts - and that they need more training in how to handle it. "You can't pretend it's not happening," she said. "We can't ignore the trend as intelligence analysts. We have to... think about how do we train, and how do we maintain integrity...
...Harvard, the unflappable attitude is easy enough for most to cultivate, or at least affect, because even the most sheltered pretend to world-weariness, and because, more charitably, the scope of human experience is fair game under academia. But within this paradoxically insular world of cosmopolitanism, where many spend far too much time in privilege and classrooms and offices, being experienced with this world is often incorrectly conflated with being blas?...