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...spite of the Yale pride, fostered by my school, friends and New Haven, I will wear Crimson at the game this year. Only two months at Harvard changed three years of cheering for Yale at The Game, longer than most Yale juniors. Some might say I have betrayed my loyalties. Sure, I am a poser. I jumped on the bandwagon, but it is better than rooting for a losing team year after year in the opposition’s home...
...more tax cuts for the rich, the end to public education? What hurts even more—probably because I’m not American and thus escape some of the most injurious of domestic policies—is that Bush’s success has cost me my pride. His unfortunate victory has paved the way for a barrage of abuse from the very people who condemned us to this shame: Republicans. Kerry’s loss has damaged my ego more than anything else because at least once a day there’s the chance that some...
...made his single largest contribution to American civil liberties since entering office as Attorney General: He resigned. During Ashcroft’s term, America has seen constitutional right after constitutional right side-stepped, ignored or attacked in the name of executive expediency, and for those of us who take pride in America being “the land of the free,” his resignation could not have come too soon...
...Dorchester by Harvard’s Department of African and African American Studies and Rev. Eugene Rivers) and outreach to poor communities, this would win back the Black vote and help fight the perception of Democrats as godless heathens who want to turn the entire country into a gay pride parade. It could also remind people that the when the Bible is not talking about gay people for a page or two it also says things like “Help poor people!” and “Love thy neighbor...
Former President George H.W. Bush was in the White House when the tally of his son's victory came through, and while he could feel the pride, his public demeanor was as controlled as it had been throughout the knife-edge campaign. "Our lives have never ended in the White House," he explained during the heat of the campaign's final days. "We don't live and die for the limelight or the head table or the plaque. George didn't think about losing, never discussed what it would be like to lose...