Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contrary to the previous two losses, Mazzoleni could confidently say that his team came out strongly on Friday. For the first time in a while, Harvard got an early jump on the competition, holding RPI at bay for over half of the game...
...this isn't to say that the Crimson was completely error-prone...
...liberal. I can just say that flat out, as if it's some key to my personality, which it is. My liberalism is not necessarily actively political--not a matter of student government or political journalism (beyond the occasional casual column). It's more just a part of my identity, a part of my history, a system of values and a way of looking at the world...
...politics are a particularly difficult area in this respect. The more strongly we feel about the crime of rape--and the more we understand about its devastating consequences for its victims--the less inclined we are to care about the other side of the story. I have heard people say, with the most earnest passion, that if a woman says she's been raped that's enough for them--as if to need any more evidence than that was to insult and trivialize rape survivors everywhere, to perpetuate the abhorrent tradition of blaming the victim. But it should work...
...Ultimately, however, Hoffman and De Niro are stymied by the limitations of the film's concept. Flawless just doesn't have enough to say. Because it never ventures beyond the audiences expectations, it fails to challenge. And so it fails to truly entertain. Flawless preaches that we should look beneath the surface. Too bad the film didn't take its own advice...