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...expectations. What I love about this team is that everyone is really close…I think that helps us a lot when it comes to fencing in tournaments.” The No. 9 men’s team (9-9) responded to last week’s rough outing with a decisive win over Brown, 21-6, but was unable to notch the win against No. 4 Penn, losing 16-11. “The men really redeemed themselves today,” Brand said. “They had a close match with Penn. I think [they...
Life in California has been rough enough these last three months as government all but ground to a halt while legislators haggled over the long-overdue budget. The state had to send out $3.3 billion in IOU notices to taxpayers and vendors; thousands of construction projects were stalled; and state offices were furloughed. Finally, after a record-breaking 45-hour Senate session, the elusive two-thirds majority vote was reached to pass a budget plan that includes $15 billion in service cuts and spending reductions, $12.8 billion in temporary tax hikes and $11.4 billion in borrowing...
...recalled with a flaccidity which could be called reductive if it seemed to serve any purpose to begin with—the young traveler is subjected to the expected travails of any desert-sojourn: sand storms, bandits and the search for water. With the help of his trusty, rough-around-the-edges Bedouin sidekick, however, he braves the obstacles and reaches Mecca, much to the expectation...
...imagined as a sort of island of culture in the midst of Manhattan - a symphony hall, an opera house, a theater and a stage for ballet, all standing back a bit in their travertine glory from a neighborhood on the Upper West Side that still had some very rough edges...
...said. “[Today] the Kansas farmer and the New York Mechanic send their sons and daughters to college.” FDR recognized that the Harvard of wealth and prestige, the Harvard at which Adams was judged by parentage and where the “Rough Rider” stuck out, was in the throes of change. “A TRAITOR TO FINE EDUCATION”But by FDR’s first run for the U.S. presidency in 1932 Harvard had not changed enough. A straw poll held by The Crimson revealed overwhelming student support...