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...whenever we get a big play, I try to get everyone in the middle of the court and get that intensity going.”Even when he first took the court, Weintraub proved his excitement for the game by coming out with high energy and a fun spirit.“I remember before our first game, I was wondering what I was going to do when they called out my name, what hand signal I was going to do,” Weintraub said. “That was probably my biggest worry...
...funds is that upperclassman parties where alcohol flows freely are the social foci of campus and deserve to be funded as such. What makes Harvard unique, however, is the fact that freshmen live together, eat together, and socialize together without institutionalized social structures to draw them apart. In the spirit of Harvard’s concern with class unity, it is wise to encourage freshman solidarity...
...history of racing is replete with highly touted thoroughbreds whose pedigree and conformation were exquisite, yet who wound up duds. Instead, it comes down to a special, intangible quality-call it spirit or heart-that you can't measure. Silent Witness had it. As a young colt, recalls his Australian breeder Ian Smith, he would "play up badly" if he were not the first fed or walked in the morning: "He dominated his paddock and was always the leader of the horses he ran with. There was something in his eye that said: Look, I'm good." Not just good...
...Last Mughal may be set a century and a half ago, but it revolves around a contemporary theme: the clash of civilizations. The spirit of evangelical Christianity had begun to infect the Englishmen in India in the 1850s. Many believed that they had been granted the Empire in order to convert Hindus and Muslims to the "true faith." On the other side, a growing number of India's Muslims were turning to a more orthodox form of Islam and dreaming of declaring jihad against the British. In May 1857, thousands of sepoys (Indian soldiers) serving in the British army mutinied...
That's a pretty good description of Ten Days in the Hills (Knopf; 445 pages), a leisurely stretch of talking and rutting that takes its structure from The Decameron and a good part of its spirit from The Kama Sutra. Let's start with The Decameron. In Boccaccio's 14th century compendium of tales, 10 people depart Florence, where the Black Death is raging, for two weeks of food, drink and storytelling in the Tuscan countryside. In Smiley's update, the Iraq war stands in for the plague. Los Angeles, the silkier parts, plays Tuscany. As the war begins...