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This Saturday, the Crimson will host Ivy foes Yale and Dartmouth at Blodgett Pool. The matches against these weaker Ivy squads should represent the easiest portion of Harvard's upcoming schedule...
...that Western definitions of freedom placed a greater emphasis on the rights of the individual versus the rights of the group than existed anywhere else in the world, and that this tendency was carried furthest in north-west Europe. The English colonies in the Americas were subject to weaker controls on the part of the imperial government than was the case in other imperial systems. In addition both before and after Columbian contact, north-west Europe had much less exposure to, and intercourse with, non-European peoples than, say, had the Portuguese and the Spanish. The English and Dutch were...
Examples of this phenomenon abound in our popular culture. A seemingly weaker David vanquished the intimidating Goliath. Town pansy George McFly summoned his inner strength to knock out reviled bully Biff. And most clearly, Clark Kent, the mild-mannered farmboy-turned-reporter, was Superman, hero to millions in Metropolis...
...average European country with an average economy, an average relationship with its neighbors, an average political life." When Milosevic's thugs pelted him with tomatoes and rocks at a campaign rally, he took a cut beneath the eye before retreating, then calmly declared that the assault showed "Milosevic is weaker than ever...
Bush will have that opportunity in Tuesday's debate. Though his debating skills are, in the minds of most analysts, measurably weaker than Gore's, Bush has handled tough contests in the past. And his campaign was worked assiduously to make Gore seem even more Ciceronian than he actually...