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...highest level of competition, as accomplished as she was on the ice at the high school level, has been while playing roller hockey. In 2004-2005, she won a silver medal at the Roller Hockey World Championships with the U.S. National Team.In her home state of California, despite the high number of current American winter Olympians who hail from the area (13—third most for any state in the country), warmer weather sports like roller hockey prevail.Martin took up roller hockey when she was 10, and then a year later was asked to play for a local boys?...
...paper, no World Series ring. But you will find a list of Harvard-centric challenges which I have devised that you must complete.Successfully execute the items, one by one, and you will prove your point to the entire world: you can, indeed, survive Harvard. And you may very well be smarter than a lot of people here.To be clear, I am completely serious about this. In fact, Mr. Guillen, if you do survive, I promise that I will go to Caracas myself, and grant you sole stewardship of my illustrious single on the third floor of New Quincy...
...from Harvard College in the summer of 1975. A couple of months earlier, the New Jersey native had submitted his senior thesis to the History Department. In his thesis, Chertoff sharply criticized the “incomplete, if not pernicious” utilitarian philosophy of Jeremy Bentham. Nearly a third of the 110-page essay was devoted to attacking what Chertoff saw as Bentham’s disregard for individual rights. But during Chertoff’s more recent record with the Bush administration, his view of individual rights seems to have become less sympathetic. Chertoff has been criticized...
...won’t publicly blame his own poverty. He echoes the minister, smiling at the wisdom of his explanation, “Zimbabwe is at war!” While official rhetoric at its best convinces—and in most cases just baffles—in Third World dictatorships like Zimbabwe, it excuses murder...
...symbols. They can protest, and cut off public funding--but the right of the individual to say or depict offensive messages or symbols is not really in dispute. Blasphemy, moreover, is common in the Muslim world, and sanctioned by Arab governments. The Arab media run cartoons depicting Jews and the symbols of the Jewish faith with imagery indistinguishable from that used in the Third Reich. But I have yet to see Jews or Israelis threaten the lives of Muslims because...