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...those expectations, Harvard's victory seemed Pyrrhic at best. The Crimson gave up 397 yards total offense, blew an 18-point lead and, in general, had to coax a John Elwayesque late-game performance out at senior quarterback Vin Ferrara to snatch the win. Conventional wisdom was that Saturday's game was hardly a promising beginning...
...wives, and they had a son, Cullen, who is an architect in Spain. The elder McCarthy's first book was The Orchard Keeper, an unsentimental, striking, powerful, lovely commemorative to a gone way of life in the old Tennessee hills that ended so portentously it made you want to snatch Faulkner from the grave and choke him for his influence...
...dartboard would like to offer a few more suggestions of the types of items which HRE Ministry of Justice can make "disappear." Start with a ridicules "shops" themselves, and then the gray, pseudo-Bauhaus, bureaucrat-infested, architectural travesty known as "Holyoke Center." Then move across the yard and snatch up cell blocks A-D of the Canaday Penal Colony. Finally, squash Le Corbusier's odious bug of a building, the ineptly named "carpenter center...
...streets," says Lammers, who has 16-in. biceps and benches 325 lbs. Deputy superintendent Lev Baldwin thinks it's unfair to single out weight lifting as criminal empowerment. "What's the difference," he asks, "between allowing them to get big muscles or letting them do aerobics so they can snatch purses and run faster?" The inmates themselves chuckle at the notion that biceps are a crook's best friends. Says prisoner Philip Shaw, 31, who resorts to 1,000 push-ups a day when he's not allowed in the gym: "You don't go into a bank and flex...
Ignoring the fact that we are doing the exact same things, one may remember that our allies, the Israelis, employed Jonathan Pollard to snatch U.S. secrets; and our close European allies, though thoroughly apprised of security issues, are masters of anti-U.S. industrial espionage. Damn the spy all you want, there is still no sense in taking umbrage at the country who employs...