Word: redeemability
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Last year the Crimson edged out the highly touted Tigers by a scant one and a half seconds in the Goldthwait Cup. But Princeton's chance to redeem itself and show Harvard, and whoever else was watching, that they were indeed tops in the East crumpled as the Tigers crawled across the finish line a very dead last in the Sprints Grande Finale...
Saturday's real race will be the J.V. affair, with the young Crimson boat out to redeem its third-place finish in San Diego, its first loss in four years...
...Crimson to redeem itself it will need to improve on its slapstick performance of Tuesday evening's 95-88 loss to Brandeis "We are a better team than when we last met Princeton and Penn and the guys feel they have a score to even Sanders said...
...discourse in America is bound to raise a disturbing question," we are told. "May it be...that such deterioration is inherent in democracy?" The answer: while meaning is most ruthlessly manipulated in Russia and China, in democracies where "the assault on language is piecemeal," intellectual freedom enables society to "redeem"language. To do so, in the political sphere at least, entails reasserting the relationship between words and "reality." The obligation for doing so rests with those who live by the "true word"--writers and teachers. They are the ones who must expose the "attack on reason in discourse" that characterizes...
...gold in Fort Knox (and other U.S. Treasury stashes) has long been regarded as a sacrosanct symbol of national wealth. Once it was available for purchase only by foreign-government bankers who wanted to redeem dollars that the U.S. insisted were as good as gold; later the U.S. Government would not sell it to anyone. Last week, though, the Treasury announced plans more in line with its current belief that gold has become a mere commodity. On Jan. 6 it will sell 2 million ounces of the glittery stuff at public auction to any purchasers, American or foreign, who care...