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Penn St. may have suffered a 1-0 upset loss to USC a week ago, but the Nittany Lions followed up with a 1-0 upset of then-No. 2 UCLA. The NSCAA polls gave more weight to the latter result, bumping Penn State up six spots in the national rankings...
...facade was at least in part for her mother's benefit. "The last thing I wanted to do was anything to make my mom more upset," says Hilary. She worried about what Ginny would think if she got too emotional or, conversely, if she appeared to be having too much fun. Hilary stopped playing the piano and didn't pick it up again until the spring. Normally well behaved, she began asking permission to do even the most absurdly trivial things, such as riding her bike around the block or flying a kite. One day Hilary forgot to pack...
...wearing a pair of military camouflage pants he had pulled from his costume trunk, and he punched newspaper pictures of Reid. "He was fighting the war there for a while," she says. The endless phone calls from the media, the airline, the flight attendants' union and the FBI further upset him, but Ian refused to discuss any of it. "Only recently has he told friends what I did," Jones says. Moutardier's 27-year-old elder son Oscar cried when he heard about the incident, but Patrice tried to act as if nothing had happened. Then his grades plunged from...
...School Will Allow Official Recruiting Visits by Military,” Aug. 26). I was saddened to read of Law School Dean Robert C. Clark’s anguished letter in which he struggled to explain why he reluctantly allowed the recruiters to return. However, I am not upset with the military’s heavy-handedness in this matter. Instead, I am ashamed to discover that Harvard has sold out. Simply put, Harvard has refused to acknowledge the vital role of the military and ROTC in this time of war. Instead, Harvard has acted sheepishly while compromising its principles...
...damage being done is more than aesthetic. Many vanishing species provide humans with both food and medicine. What's more, once you start tearing out swaths of ecosystem, you upset the existing balance in ways that harm even areas you didn't intend to touch. Environmentalists have said this for decades, and now that many of them have tempered ecological absolutism with developmental realism, more people are listening...