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...years she refused the medical community's help to master her disease, and later to limit its evolution and pain," Béal notes. "Then, towards the end, she demanded the medical community help her die using the same sort of medicine she'd rejected as treatment...
...work out the way we wanted to.”After senior Jordan Weitzen was sidelined with an injury, the Crimson struggled to fill the outside hitter position. Rapp took it over for this weekend’s matches.“We needed to have some sort of lineup change after all these losses in a row,” Rapp said. “After Jordan quit [playing], it became looking for someone to fill the outside spot. Other people had been given the opportunity, but this was what we thought was the best lineup change...
...every clear attempt, never surrendering possession on transition.“It was a testament to our team’s character that we didn’t quit,” said sophomore midfielder Jason Duboe, who netted two goals in the effort. “Time sort of ran out on us. They built a pretty good lead and they were definitely a very slick team. But two more [shots] fall and we take it to overtime.”Harvard entered the game ranked 19th on the heels of a four-game winning streak. Duboe and sophomore...
...Like the Christian cross, which has served the purposes of soup kitchens and Crusaders, the Sisters of Mercy and the Ku Klux Klan, it was adaptable. Over time, it evolved from its narrow association with nuclear disarmament into an insignia for countercultures of all kinds. Hippies made it a sort of all-purpose symbol of peacefulness. The environmental group Greenpeace, the militant wing of flower power, adopted it for its eco-defense campaigns...
Perhaps the temptation to declaim on such a grand stage is too much to resist. And because the Olympics have become a sort of debutante ball for nations entering the global lite, governments must ask whether mere attendance confers a stamp of approval on the host. The boycott logic is easy enough to follow...