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...fittingly at high noon, the Crimson’s first match of the day placed it against the James Madison Dukes in the Corral.The Crimson found its rhythm slightly earlier than in Friday’s games, winning the second set and nearly taking the third.Although the record followed suit with the previous day’s losses, the scores suggest that the women’s squad upped its aggressiveness. Harvard never lost by more than six.The first set also proved to be characteristic: the Crimson altered between allowing offensive runs and then hacking away at the deficit. Towards...
...What could they possibly have to say?She was contemplating a return to the bougainvillea--it couldn’t hurt--when she saw Frederick ambling towards her. His thin body was clad in black, and he had allowed his hair to grow long and shaggy.The look did not suit him, Felicity thought dispassionately.“Good afternoon, dear,” Frederick began hesitantly. “I trust you are recovered?”Felicity did not deign to reply.“Felicity,” he said again, with more force this time...
...pensioner in his 70s, complains that "the Blacks (the conservative People's Party) are kapitalistische Schweine. And the Reds (Social Democrats) are just the same. Strache is a super man." Maybe. Some campaign literature from the Freedom Party even depicts Strache literally as a super hero, blue jump suit and all, hovering in the sky to protects Austrians from the alleged cynical manipulations of the Social Democrats who supposedly are admitting immigrants just to get their votes. Austria's far right seems to be quite good at telling stories. But as a political phenomenon they are all too real. With...
...contrast, I have been brought into contact with any number of historians, in America and abroad, who have twisted the facts of history to suit their own particular political or social views or prejudices. Mainstream German history textbooks today routinely ignore or treat merely as footnotes such events as Kristallnacht, the Holocaust and German guilt, while the more extreme deny their existence entirely. At various points in the past century, entirely reputable historians came down on all sides of the Vietnam War, the Armenian massacres by Turks, the humanity of Soviet communism and, today, American policies across the Middle East...
With a talented and wealthy crop of students leaving the public school system every year for greener pastures, it’s become far too easy to simply label that system “broken” and follow suit. Renewed community-wide participation in state education would be accompanied by a sense of urgency to fix that system’s myriad problems. Of course there is a place in the world for private schools; it’s simply important, in the name of equal opportunity, to ensure that the discrepancy between them and their public counterparts should...