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...character as homosexual), transfers his feelings of rage and need towards his father into a sexual embrace, it begs disturbing questions about the boundaries of love. Only towards the end of the play do such details and moments begin to crystallize. Yet before they have a chance to redeem the opening hour of far-too-glib quips, the play concludes...
Harvard hoped to redeem itself with an upset, but instead it became the victim of a Dartmouth tournament send-off party in a circus-like atmosphere. The Big Green blew the Crimson away, 96-74, led by eight threes by then-senior Courtney Banghart and a near-perfect shooting night from then-freshman Katharine Hanks...
Cardinal Law’s recent backpedaling seems to be an overreaction to redeem his reputation in the public eye for the disastrous handling of Geoghan. By removing Spagnolia, Law seems to be acting solely on hearsay without having launched a full investigation. Making snap judgments on such a damning accusation goes against the very foundation of American law that one is innocent until proven guilty...
Although this weekend’s event is the only individual tournament on the college schedule, the Harvard men’s and women’s squash teams are looking at the championships as an opportunity to redeem themselves for their “disappointing” (by Harvard squash standards, anyway) third- and second-place finishes, respectively, at their team championships the last two weekends...
...When B?ll's wife Sophie?an Austrian Jew whose parents were victims of the Nazi death camps?falls ill, her dying designs for her husband's salvation lead to an eleventh-hour revelation, bringing B?ll and Amai together. B?ll looks to Amai to redeem him for what he's done, what he's made. And when Amai sees through B?ll's facade to his depressed, almost somnolent state, she recognizes a shadowy reflection of kyodatsu, "the condition of despair and exhaustion" that possessed the Japanese after the war, and begins to comprehend the price he paid for victory...