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...midst of a financial downturn, with big government back in fashion and capitalism badly bruised, the left should have swept the European Parliament elections that took place over four days last week. But instead, voters emphatically punished socialist and social-democrat parties - when they could be bothered to show up to the polls...
...Ancient Eight home opener, Harvard stormed back to edge the Big Red, 6-5, in the nightcap to snap Cornell’s 15-game winning streak. Harvard then split a pair with defending league champion Princeton the next day.The Crimson faltered in its Ivy North opener, getting swept by Yale, but responded by sweeping the Bulldogs two days later and picking up three crucial division wins against Brown. “It’s been said that we always kind of come through at the end, so I think this team does show a lot of heart...
...Brine said. “We knew what we had to do. It was relatively the same team as last year, so we knew we had the capabilities…We all hunkered down and believed in each other and did our best.”The Crimson was swept twice on the road in November, first by ECAC rivals Clarkson and St. Lawrence, and then by Minnesota.A 3-2 loss to Connecticut knocked Harvard out of the rankings for the first time in six years, and things looked bleak heading into a Dec. 17 matchup with then...
...blended with it." Carlo Carrà captured this energy in the kaleidoscopic What the Tram Told Me (1911), while Umberto Boccioni conveys the rush of rail travel in his triptych States of Mind (1911). The second painting in the series, Those Who Go, depicts giant dreaming heads swept along with fragmentary buildings, leaving faded gray figures marooned on the platform in the third panel, Those Who Stay...
...mosaic, but the monochromatic world of the John Howard generation. These white youths had grown up during the decade of the former Prime Minister's conservative administration - they had witnessed the tacit acceptance of Hanson and her divisive politics, and had been caught up in the panicky xenophobia that swept the nation in response not only to the arrival of asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere, but also to the growing visibility and affluence of Australia's nonwhite communities. All this went through my mind as I watched them dance, sing and wave their new battle standard...