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...other action, No. 1 seed Brown defeated No. 8 seed Niagara 5-0 and No. 5 seed Northeastern upset No. 4 seed New Hampshire 4-3. The winner of the Dartmouth-Harvard semifinal will face either Brown or Northeastern in Sunday's conference title game...
Harvard sophomore Lizzy Frisbie scored the game-winner with 1:12 remaining in regulation to complete the come-from-behind victory...
...millionaire? In the song the answer was, "I don't." But that was in another country. Gone these days is the character who practically defined American heroism, epic and tragic--Huck and Holden; Charlie Chaplin, Charlie Brown. Nearly all of Hemingway's heroes are defeated in Winner Take Nothing and in the novels. In To Have and Have Not, Harry Morgan had not. The dark, antiheroes of a time as recent as the 1970s have disappeared too--De Niro in Taxi Driver, Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon. Bruce Springsteen sang about his "town full of losers." In Rocky...
...some ways, it is easier to be an American winner than a loser, which had certain definite requirements...
...this story "not only because of the horrific situation of a child killing another child but also because the larger context of the story seems to connect to so many other problems in the country." The prolific Rosenblatt wrote this week's Essay as well, on our winner-take-all society's lost appreciation for the beautiful loser...