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...Hanoverian, football is more than just a game, it's a struggle for attention. That's why Dartmouth freshmen wear those ugly green shirts with their year on the back, build gigantic bonfires, dance around the other team's band and sing ridiculous songs. That's why Dartmouth frat boys get a kick out of spilling green paint on the John Harvard statue. That's why Dartmouth's president just happens to be a record-holding football player...
What the administration should do next year is force every freshman to recite "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard" at the pool before taking the swimming test. A student would just sing and then jump in and swim 50 yards. It's an easy way to knock off two birds with one stone...
...when the game ends, we'll sing again...
Giap himself states the Vietminh military strategy, "...in war we have to win, absolutely have to win." The episode finishes with the precarious Geneva Accords of 1954, and closes after a story about the French Legionaires landing at Dien Bien Phu. After the legionaires patriotically sing their Legion song, a cadre of Vietnamese respond by chanting La Marseillaise having no song of their...
...CONSIDER your crime worse than murder." Judge Irving Kaufman declared when he sentenced Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to death in 1951 for conspiring to spy for the Soviet Union. And two years later in June. 1953, the Rosenbergs went to the electric chair in Sing-Sing prison. But that was not to be the end of the debate over the Rosenbergs. Questions linger today about not only the verdict but also the nature of the trial, the justice of the death sentence, even the significance of the information (on the construction and composition of the atomic bomb) which the Rosenbergs...