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McDermott, the league leader in per-game passing and offense, had absorbed a bone-crunching hit on Penn’s final play against Princeton last week, leaving his availability for the Harvard game in doubt. As Saturday’s title bout with the Crimson neared, various diagnoses sprang up on websites and newspapers from Philadelphia to Cambridge. A bruised collarbone. A broken collarbone. An injury to his non-throwing shoulder. McDermott wouldn’t play. He’d play, but not start...
...money, we had a ground operation the likes of which has never been seen, and we had a good candidate who stood toe to toe with the President and bested him in three debates," sighs Harold Ickes, who ran two of the cash-rich outside groups that sprang up in this election to help the Democrats contend with the G.O.P. fund-raising advantage. "We had all that, and we still lost. People are going to ask, 'What do we have to do?' There's going to be a real aftershock...
...danger ahead in August sprang from the combined vagaries of the calendar and the campaign-finance laws. Once Kerry accepted his party's nomination at the Democratic Convention on July 29, he would be bound by a strict spending limit of $75 million in public money--a straitjacket that President George W. Bush would not have to put on until his own convention finished Sept. 2. By early June, some of Kerry's media advisers wanted to change the game...
...houses," where courtesans entertained their customers. All of it was tolerated, though watched closely, by the shogunate. Originally the term "floating world," or ukiyo, referred to the Buddhist notion that the everyday grind of travail and tears is ephemeral. Yet the proprietors and patrons of the leisure districts that sprang up on the outskirts of Edo (Tokyo), Kyoto and Osaka in the 1600s turned that concept on its head. Life was to be savored. "Living only for the moment, turning our full attention to the pleasures of the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms and the maples," as novelist Asai...
...world festival circuit and the postwar European art cinema sprang up, in part, to fend off American theatrical dominance. Our film history is incalculably richer...