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...matchups, Harvard dismantled its opponents, dropping only one point over both fixtures. With so ruthless a display in two closely-fought games against Columbia and Cornell—the margin of victory a single point in both—the Crimson team of 2009 will aim for history to repeat itself. If only college tennis was that simple. “[Princeton and Penn] lost their opening matches, but when we come out, we always seem to have a target on our back,” Fish said. “So we always seem to make people play their...
...Tower” and “On Harvard Time” as well to gems like “Men for Palin” and Petros’s music videos. (You mean I can watch “Body Glow” and "Predator” on repeat...
...Festive fans of North Carolina, the University of Connecticut, and Villanova University - the other three teams that made the Final Four - will likely have a nice time in spruced-up Detroit. But it's a stretch, Zimbalist says, to figure they'll suddenly think of Detroit as a repeat destination - and even more of a stretch to hope that television viewers will be impressed. "People aren't going to sit there and think, 'Oh my God, I'm going to Detroit for my next vacation,'" says Zimbalist. "Corporate executives aren't going to say, 'I need to open an office...
...defense, mounted by every progressive Catholic politician since, clearly indicates that “truth” imposes no obligation if public opinion and the machinations of well-funded lobbyists are not fortuitously aligned. That shameful episode, a source of scandal to faithful Catholics even today, threatens to repeat itself...
...History doesn't repeat itself," Mark Twain is supposed to have said, "but it rhymes." Does America in 2009 rhyme with the Britain of 1909? Back then, the British were finishing a proud century as the most important nation on earth - economically, politically, militarily, culturally. But the U.S. was coming on fast, having already overtaken the Brits economically. Between the beginning of World War I and the end of World War II, as America turned into the unequivocal global leader, Britain became an admirable also-ran, radically diminished as a global player. If the 21st century rhymed, China would...