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While the Harvard men’s squash team couldn’t wrest the Ivy crown from Princeton for its 11th title in 13 years or bring home its first national championship since 1996-97, it still finished its season on a triumphant note...
Hall’s heroics would have been for naught without Witcher’s triumphant finish to her collegiate career moments earlier. With a four-game win of her own at No. 7, Witcher tied the match at four, making her wish for a competitive senior season come true...
...mountain. Those men kept things in perspective. One of my single favorite sentences in all literature is Hunt's description of the return to camp of Hillary and Tenzing after reaching the summit. "The next moment I was with them: handshakes - even, I blush to say, hugs - for the triumphant pair." Between that "I blush to say, hugs" and our own age of overemoting, lip-chewing Presidents and Prime Ministers, of nations weeping at the death of a princess or a Kennedy, of private joy and grief turned into public spectacle, there is a yawning gap not just of time...
...Bush is, for the moment, triumphant. His triumphs may turn out to be historic, but they will require a great deal of work. The openings to North Korea and Iran will require subtle, patient diplomacy, which has not been this Administration's strength. The reconstruction of Iraq will require great skill and sensitivity as well, and events on the ground do not bode well. Many Iraqis moved with unseemly haste from dancing in the streets to stealing everything that wasn't tied down. Worse, their gratitude--which seemed equal parts real and sham--dissolved into griping within days. One wonders...
...Bush is, for the moment, triumphant. His triumphs may turn out to be historic, but they will require a great deal of work. The openings to North Korea and Iran will require subtle, patient diplomacy, which has not been this Administration's strength. The reconstruction of Iraq will require great skill and sensitivity as well, and events on the ground do not bode well. Many Iraqis moved with unseemly haste from dancing in the streets to stealing everything that wasn't tied down. Worse, their gratitude - which seemed equal parts real and sham - dissolved into griping within days. One wonders...