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...pulled off a huge victory against Portugal. It didn't make us feel that great because there's not much Portugal is better at than us, other than making sweet wine and salted cod. This is a country that has been in decline since 1494, when in the saddest, most grandiose moment of self-delusion in history, it actually sat down with Spain and divided up the world. Not even Brad Grey and Mike Ovitz ever did that, at least not publicly...
...Restic, Harvard football head coach from 1971 to 1993, says he remembers Puopolo as being extremely coachable and a hard worker. He calls the incident “one of the saddest things that ever happened to me at Harvard...
...Sverak from a script by his father Zdenek, there is something terribly touching in the dutiful gallantry with which Franta absorbs his blows, something sweetly surprising when happiness briefly visits him. One thinks of the great opening line of that great novel The Good Soldier: "This is the saddest story I have ever heard." Like many such tales, this one is worth taking to your aching heart...
Forced to ask Smith to leave after student complaints, Young said the ghost looked at him with “the saddest eyes I’ve ever seen. He said, ‘You’ve ruined a perfectly good thing.’” Smith then walked down the stairs and was never seen again, Young said...
...photos of the Taliban soldier being murdered were the saddest things I have seen in a long time. War is truly senseless and vile. I'm not a pacifist, but I am opposed to those who would proclaim that there is something glorious or heroic about going into battle. If war was necessary in Afghanistan, so be it; but I urge everyone who says it was to look closely at the man who is being brutalized in these photos and remember that when violence is institutionalized, this kind of madness will erupt sooner or later. I don't usually consider...