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...would have a mess on its hands. But our eight fearless leaders would be happy, because they kept our coaches and players at home where they could be easily accessible to reporters asking how it feels not to compete, instead of actually allowing the players to go out and prove their abilities...
...course some objectors, like Reagan's family, acted out of genuine offense. But this, like most political battles, was mainly about one principle: winning. You fight to prove you can. To command deference. To convince people they're better off messing with the other guy's icons. For that matter, 'fess up, liberals: Were you truly offended that Rush Limbaugh made himself a bad role model and hypocrite by abusing OxyContin - or were you just happy that one of the other guys went down...
...calmed him, and he raises a hand: Eat, then interview. When lunch is over, he says, "I'm sure regardless of my marriage and impending fatherhood, certain things shift just because of age." One of those things is that he no longer goes out to bars simply to prove that he is not too famous to go out to bars. "I am a famous actor," he says with the grim acceptance of a recovering addict...
Harvard set out to prove to the hockey world that even without two of its top goal scorers, it has a dominating team...
...relief Harvard was waiting for hasn’t yet come. Injuries heal slowly. Supposed lulls in the schedule like Dartmouth and Columbia improbably prove too much to handle. And for whatever reason, the team that even this week still led Division I-AA football in total yards per game has simply imploded when it comes to producing offense...