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...becoming—forgive me—just another university. ’Round these parts, we’re taught never to settle for being below the fold, and that true greatness requires a well-timed announcement. Spare the press release, however, and you’ll spoil the whole damned week.Adam Goldenberg ’08 is a social studies concentrator in Winthrop House. His column appears regularly...
...Green defenseman on the ice by knocking him against the boards. While Meintel served his two minutes minor, Dartmouth enjoyed a power play and possession of the puck. But, taking advantage of a Big Green man-advantage unit that often substitutes forwards in for defensemen, Taylor was able to spoil the show. “I knew, myself, that forwards don’t usually like to get back and play defense, so I was kind of anticipating that,” Taylor said. Taylor’s knowledge guided him into perfect position to take advantage of an errant...
...executed by one--and has described General Musharraf as an incompetent ruler who indulges in "puerile brinkmanship." In his view, she and Nawaz Sharif, another former Prime Minister, epitomize the weak, deeply corrupt democracy he overthrew in a bloodless 1999 coup. Just the mention of their names can spoil his mood; Musharraf once told a television interviewer that he would like to "kick them...
...subsequent letters. The more success Teresa had - and half a year later so many young women had joined her society that she needed to move again - the worse she felt. In March 1953, she wrote Périer, "Please pray specially for me that I may not spoil His work and that Our Lord may show Himself - for there is such terrible darkness within me, as if everything was dead. It has been like this more or less from the time I started 'the work...
...role in equipping the Red Army, we headed for a holiday camp Kabriov knew on the shores of the massive Lake Uvil'dui, not far from where the Mayak facility's waste is now stored, more or less safely ensconced in concrete. Why let a little radioactivity spoil a beautiful July evening...