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...been said that in America during the fractious 1850s, before the Civil War, Walt Whitman entertained the wistful, urgent conceit that his great poem "Leaves of Grass" might save the Union. It would show Americans that despite their divisions they were one great nation. Montaigne, almost three centuries earlier, worked a variation on the theme. Rising above dogma and abstraction, he would pursue the general human truth by studying himself - and such generalized self-knowledge, the recognition of their human selves, might relieve people of their inclination to kill one another for religious reasons...
James Bullock, Deepak Abraham and Andrew Merrill cruised to victory in the middle of the lineup, and Isaac Whitman, Barry and Thomas Storch proved equally dominant in the bottom three positions...
This is why it is so hard to make coherent sense of the place. Every time we "all come to look for America" (another Simon lyric) , we end up staring at ourselves. Old Whitman sang the confusion: "Males, females, immigrants, combinations, the copiousness, the individuality of the States each for itself...O lands! all so dear to me--what you are, (whatever it is), I become a part of that, whatever...
...performances from the middle and bottom thirds of their roster because Harvard's depth is superior to many of its opponents. Senior Gray Witcher, sophomore Dylan Patterson and Abraham will fill the middle of the Crimson's roster. In the bottom third will be senior Andrew Merrill, freshman Ziggy Whitman and junior David Barry...
...Jersey, animal-rights groups are seeking a court injunction against the bear hunt. Last summer Governor Christine Todd Whitman pressured the state's fish and game council to reduce its target from 350 to 175. Instead of a hunt, foes argue, let the bears deplete their natural food supply, which would cause their numbers to drop--assuming, that is, they avoid the local Dairy Queen Dumpster. "Trophy hunting solves nothing," says Wayne Pacelle of the Humane Society of the U.S. "People should bear-proof their garbage and close their windows while cooking...