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...irresistible impulse to swipe: they called it kleptomania, from the Greek kleptein, to steal. It was applied after the fact to Jane Austen's aunt, who was tried in 1800 for pocketing fancy white lace. By the 1920s Freudian psychologists, always attuned to underlying sexual drives, were comparing the rush from a successful filch to the pleasure of an orgasm. Experts today are more inclined to compare recreational larceny to thrill-seeking behaviors like bungee jumping or to addictions like drug abuse or compulsive gambling...
...give the Quakers enough of an advantage, Penn was able to bring pressure with just its front four lineman. The key turning point in the game—when Penn’s Chris Pennington returned a Rose fumble for a touchdown—was caused by a strong rush that even got around the Crimson’s dependable senior right tackle Jamil Soriano...
...know that,” Jost said. “I don’t know why I said what I said. I felt that there was a real rush to speak. I just wasn’t focusing on what the guy was asking...
With 4:09 to go in the first quarter, Tyler put the Crimson on the board with 5-yard touchdown run tying the score, 7-7. Tyler, who saw his first action last week at Dartmouth, became the first Crimson tailback to rush for over 100 yards this year and the first Harvard freshman to ever perform the feat, by carrying the ball 19 times for 120 total yards...
...disassociated from its namesake, and had irrevocably become associated instead with brief vacations and department store sales. This is why my hometown’s parade feels insufficient: it is too modest a recognition of veterans on the day that bears their name, too brief an interval before we rush to the mall to take advantage of holiday sales...