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Like a bracing dash of water to the face, it's useful to have a dose of realism added to America's innate idealistic instincts every now and then. It's also useful to be reminded that the easy-to-swallow bromide about how our ideals are the same as our interests is, alas, not always true in a messy world...
...standalone topic that is interrelated and linked to the other chapters. It is entirely possible to pick and choose the chapters that you want to read—some readers may find this a better approach to this book as Dawkins’ polemical tone is often difficult to swallow in large doses...
...thought the talk of a ban must be coming from local children's entertainers or tennis players. But let me say to whoever started circulating these rumors, Vegemite is not a political football. It's is a bread-and-butter issue. And there are many reasons America should not swallow such a ban, and indeed should encourage the spread of the Vegemony...
Despite their fundamental differences, conservative and liberal groups on campus share a common woe: Many students find partisan political sentiments difficult for the moderate mouth to swallow. A die-hard liberal throughout high school, I often feel as if my reluctance to write-off final clubs as dens of sin or bang a drum in a throbbing mass of protesters precludes me from identifying as a left-winger at Harvard. On the other hand, no part of me wishes to identify with the posh and elitist “ancient principles” of “Western civilization?...
...varsity rowers, everyone is doing a great job of stepping up in the program and improving the squad.”Yet everything always comes back to reclaiming that national championship that has eluded the crew since 1997. But what is most difficult for the squad to swallow is not just this lack of championships, but how close the team has come. As the silvers and bronzes build up, the hope for gold, in many ways, is appearing farther and farther out of reach.Last season provides the perfect example. Radcliffe came out on fire during the spring dual season, notching...