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...result was a triumph of electoral timidity, worsened by fake populism. By a queer flip-flop of logic, a majority of Australian voters (55% to 45%) decided that to have an Australian President appointed by a democratically elected government was elitist and unsafe, whereas to have an immensely rich hereditary monarch as their head of state was somehow democratic and good. To understand how this weird inversion could occur, one must be aware that Australians are even more skeptical about the character of their "pollies" than Americans are, though they have little reason to be: the level of serious political...
...Australians--especially the younger ones--are a tolerant people. Few of the extreme emotions set off in the U.S. by the idea of multiculturalism have been awakened by its Australian version. We are, in fact, one of the world's most successful multicultural democracies, and this is an ethical triumph of no small consequence. Australians on the whole realize that multiculturalism, that forbiddingly bureaucratic polysyllable responsible for so much hot air, really means learning to read other people's image banks, not a forced renunciation of one's own. They realize, quite naturally and instinctively, that the desire to "give...
...were confident in our ability to beat them.” Although the Big Red won eight events to Harvard’s six, Harvard placed in second or third in all of the races in which it did not top the podium, providing enough points to triumph over Cornell. In the 200-yard breaststroke and the 500-yard freestyle, the Crimson displayed the depth that earned it a victory. In the breaststroke, Rathgeber came in first with a time of 2:06.04. He was closely followed his teammates, freshman Justin Davidson, freshman Mike Polino, and sophomore Simone Melillo. Harvard...
...finished in second place with a 2-2 overall record, with wins coming against Sweden and Finland and both losses sustained to Canada. Chu was named the U.S. Player of the Game in the 2-1 win over Finland, while Cahow assisted on a score in the 4-0 triumph over Sweden. Canada skated to a perfect 4-0 record in its gold-medal effort, amassing 17 total goals. Vaillancourt added a score in her team’s 5-3 win against Sweden in its third game of the Cup. —REBECCA A. COMPTON
...Political figures such as the Perons have been superseded as icons of Argentine identity by more recent figures such as former Boca ace Diego Maradona, widely considered during the 1980s to have been the greatest player in the world. In 1986, he led Argentina to World Cup triumph in a campaign whose victims included England, in a symbolic avenging of the humiliating military defeat the country had suffered at British hands in the Falklands four years earlier. Not unlike the Perons, of course, Maradona the icon had his flaws - he was banned from Italian football (where he had played...