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...Today's science, replete with certainties, has little room for aesthetics. Yet for the Macleays and their contemporaries, beauty was more than half the point. The specimens were prizes, to be sure, shown off to friends and rival collectors, but they were also, in their mysterious affinities and variations, clues to the overarching design of Nature, "the plan of the creation itself, the work of an all-wise, all-powerful deity," wrote William the son, who knew and influenced Charles Darwin but disagreed with him about God. Stacey's own long contemplation of the collections made her "constantly think...
...Calderón. His performance outclassed Mexico's usual disaster response (after the 1985 earthquake, the public basically had to rescue itself while officials tried to underplay the casualties). It also helped Calderón show he cares about poor people in the south, the home turf of his populist rival Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who still tours the country calling himself the "legitimate President...
Since my code is already screwed up, I’ll leave you instead with a story: In 2000, I traveled down to Philadelphia with my dad to see Harvard play Penn, its chief rival for league supremacy at the time. The Crimson was 4-1 in the Ivies entering the game, its league title hopes still alive. I remember two things from that afternoon. One, an electrifying Crimson receiver wearing number 19, catching passes and making plays all over the field. I later learned his name was Carl Morris and he turned out to be arguably the greatest wideout...
...soccer team has one goal in mind. “We have to win,†junior Mike Fucito said. Losing is no longer an option for the Crimson (10-3-2, 3-2 Ivy), currently ranked 15th in the nation. With losses to Ivy rivals Brown and Dartmouth already in the books, the league title is out of its reach. But with two games left to play, an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament is still a very real possibility. “With two victories, we’ll be able to convince the committee that...
...wooing his host was Sarkozy's main priority during his first official visit as president to the U.S., the message was lost on nobody back home. The leftist daily Libération headlined with Sarkozy's "French Kiss," while conservative rival Le Figaro noted "Sarkozy Hails Franco-American Friendship." Le Parisien similarly observed "Sarkozy Declares Love for the United States"; however, the newspaper acknowledged the remaining differences by beginning its story on his Washington triumph by using the notorious Bush boast "Mission Accomplished". Other French reports were more pointed on how Franco-American policy views often diverge beneath...