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...says. “But I thought that he was playing as well as anyone and as consistent as anyone so far this year.”The senior suffered a foot injury last week in practice but will be expected to return to the squad within two weeks. Upon return, Housman must gel with Amaker, a former All-American point guard in his own right, for the team to have any chance of success this year.“I think our relationship has grown. We’re working hard to make that point guard relationship work because...
...progressed too far when it is permitted to so carelessly meddle with the documents on which state and federal government are founded. Given that constitutions are meant to push back against fickle and sometimes bigoted democratic movements, states should protect their own order, and all their citizens, by insisting upon a super-majority threshhold when amendments are at hand. While this may be understood as a limitation placed on individual will, such a barrier would ultimately protect a state’s entire population from reckless legal dynamism...
...realize that they faced such a military threat from NATO and the European Union. Moreover, I sincerely doubt the Russians’ suspicion that the defense shield’s stated intention of intercepting missiles coming from the Middle East is simply a pretense to encroach upon their territory...
...famed, unambiguously-titled collection of essays “On Photography,” the celebrated American writer Susan Sontag notes that “the camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.”Upon visiting artist-curator Tim Barber’s online art gallery tinyvices.com, a mixed-media motley of art and artistically-inclined product, one might feel inclined to agree with Sontag. Perhaps because Barber himself is a gifted photographer, the site is photo-heavy and characterized by the now-standard downtown...
...Renaissance” is not so much individual lines but the sensitive and intelligent way Q-Tip treats his subject matter. Whether he is rapping about his romantic relationships, familial bonds, or the state of hip-hop, Q-Tip can always be depended upon to be tasteful and insightful. On standout track “We Fight/We Love,” Q-Tip addresses the Iraq War from the perspective of a soldier and his wife. He raps about the soldier, “You want identity / So you join this big fraternity / You get to travel the world / It?...