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That's an enormous burden for this team to bear at a school which prides itself on its football tradition. But the team carries on quite well, relentlessly optimistic that after eight straight losses it will redeem itself with a Big Three championship against all odds...
What the Crimson will find in Yale is a squad itching to redeem its season with a win over Harvard. Currently 4-7-2, the Elis have lost three games on penalty strokes. And Yale is well aware of the spoiler role it could play in the Ivy race...
...debauched and wicked malefactors. Goodness prevails in a series of circumstances and coincidences which quickly becomes a caricature of itself," this day, the play remains of questionable authorship, though a number of well-turned and colorful phrases reveal the Elizabethan Bard. Indeed, language, infages, themes and parallels occasionally redeem the play, but mostly it just sloughs along. Uncut, the three-and-a-half-hour romance is an ambitious undertaking--just to watch...
...Bretton Woods arrangements called for countries to establish fixed exchange rates for their currencies. Nations could adjust them only under extreme conditions. In addition, foreign governments could theoretically redeem any dollars they held for gold, which thus served as an underpinning for the system. But these arrangements came apart in 1971, when the Nixon Administration, faced with the possibility that other nations could demand more gold than the U.S. had, stopped exchanging the metal for dollars. Without gold as an anchor, exchange rates began to float freely...
...Nixon's last supporters still summoned up bitterness. Not a few Americans cracked open bottles of champagne. Mostly, the nation was massively grateful to have it ended. As Ford said at his swearing-in, "Our long national nightmare is over." By his leaving, Nixon seemed at last to redeem the 1968 pledge he took from a girl holding up a campaign sign in Ohio: BRING US TOGETHER...