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...were to simply abide by the patterns of history, given that this is 1999, an odd year in the vicious cycle of victory and defeat, then the Crimson may be predetermined to win the national championship. But these athletes quickly disregard any superstitious prophesies, and are aware that a national championship is hardly a given...
Because the summary judgment of the last 30years is that while he was a fascinating andromantic figure, Hemingway was a colossal jerk.He is seen, at best, as ignoring women and atworst as a vicious misogynist; he is cast asanti-Semitic; he is pronounced guilty of writingAfrican-American and native African characters outof his works and of racism when he does includethem. And even when Hemingway is not offendinganybody, he has been labeled infantile. Writerslike Tobias Wolff mark their adulthood at thepoint when they cease to be entranced byHemingway's bravado; and perhaps many--like PeterMathiessen, who smugly pronounced the author...
...assassin star on the scene, Tse Wei Lim `02, killed nearly all his opponents in the Harvard Computer Society/Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association game this year. Although he held no grudge against the members of the vicious HCS, the sci-fi fan jumped at the chance to play because it offered the opportunity to be "predatory...
...lost her Senate race), and gave them to candidates who could take down his political enemies. Private Enemy No. 1 for McConnell is--you guessed it--Russell Feingold. Neumann's campaign, funded by McConnell's committee and others, promptly used the money it received to run a series of vicious negative advertisements against Feingold...
...vicious murder of Matthew Shephard in Wyoming last fall captured national attention and highlighted the nationwide trend of increased violence against gays and lesbians. On April 6, the Associated Press reported that the number of suspected anti-gay murders had more than doubled over the last year, as did the number of victims of anti-gay violence who required hospitalization. The use of weapons such as guns, knives, clubs, and bats in those attacks rose by double-digit percentages. Meanwhile, the "homosexual panic" defense--"He came on to me, I lost my mind"--continues to prove successful in winning acquittals...