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...found their way to the Internet. There seemed something funny and very American about insisting that eternity must scramble to catch up with progress--God's obligation to gadgets. It is the Stout Cortez Syndrome, the New World habit of needing a procession of new worlds, transformative revelations following upon one another like new-model cars...
...days later, a posse of media descended upon the Dallas Cowboys' training complex in Valley Ranch, Texas, to do a different sort of digging. Less than 48 hours after the Cowboys beat the Minnesota Vikings 40-15 in their wild-card playoff game, Dallas police announced they were investigating a claim by a 23-year-old waitress that wide receiver Michael Irvin held a gun to her head as she was sexually assaulted by offensive tackle Erik Williams and another man, unidentified, in Williams' home after the Viking game. Bad news is nothing new to the Cowboys, who have already...
...each player adopts a girl or boy, whose bike he rides from the field to the locker room for the rest of the year. (Some Cowboys apparently have a similar tradition involving "self-employed models.") In an era in which players charge money for autographs, and athletes look upon fans and the media as so many flies, the bike ride is not just quaint. It is therapeutic. And in an era in which team owners hold franchises for ransom, and city-states fight city-states for them, it is positively heartening to know the Packers will always be in Green...
...Life, whose president, Meghan E. Grizzle ’07, described the government professor as “an ally and friend” to her organization. Mansfield has had a strong conservative voice on campus since joining the faculty in 1962. Last night’s discussion touched upon ideas that are featured in his most recent work, “Manliness...
...Dinosaurs and Their Relatives.” When they asked me what I learned sitting there in Science Center C, what sprung to mind was not skeletal systems or plate tectonics, but how my roommate created an aggressively lewd anagram to remember therapods. But once upon a time, science was my passion. In grade school, I was fascinated by lab experiments, class field trips to the Museum of Natural History, and, most of all, my parents’ jobs. Ironically, I also happened to memorize a lot of facts about dinosaurs.My Halloween costume was not only easy to make...