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...done a lot of sacrificing so it’s nice to see them get rewarded. They certainly deserve it.” A momentum-changing goal from junior midfielder Max Motschwiller just over a minute into the third period tied the game and set the tone for the Crimson-dominated second half. Recording his fifth of the season, he leads the team in scoring. “Max made a really big play at beginning of the third quarter and that gave us a ton of confidence,” Tillman said of the junior, who also tied...
...subject matter, the music grows more ominous and the sound stages on which the interviews are filmed darken with layered shadows.Galison and Moss coax surprisingly frank admissions from a dozen people whose lives have been steeped in secrets. These confessions are given in an almost uniformly even-handed, rational tone that betrays their gravity. As Melissa Boyle Mahle, former CIA Chief of Base in Jerusalem, says to us, “A democracy is not a natural state of being. A democracy needs its citizens to be in on the rules of the game. If we change those rules, democracy...
Despite retracting his earlier description of the religious right as "agents of intolerance," John McCain still displays a religious tone deafness. Witness his campaign's recent enthusiastic reaction to the endorsement from Christian Zionist John Hagee. The Texas pastor has alluded to the Catholic Church as "the great whore" and has linked it to Hitler. It seems no one in McCain's camp was prepared for angry blowback from Catholics. The conservative Catholic League says McCain "has shown horrendous judgment in buddying up to this bigot." McCain will only say, "I obviously do not" agree with "all of Pastor Hagee...
...when Huckabee seemed to sink beneath his ideals, once by pandering to the racially divisive confederate flag in South Carolina, and a second time by raising the issue of Mitt Romney's Mormon religion, for which he later apologized. But those low blows were easily forgotten in the larger tone he set for the campaign...
...said head teaching fellow Kelly L. Gibson. “I think it’s something they can prepare more for.” Students further praise the cyber-meetings with getmedieval (McCormic’s online identity) for giving oft intimidating office hours a more laid back tone: “It was very casual,” said Jenny D. Wanger ’09 of her Skype experience. “We were chatting and he was in his office and I was in my room.” Even though face time with Harvard professors...