Word: wonderful
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...administrative codes by which most mass-spectator sports are governed were generally assembled in the late 19th century. Consequently they come drenched in what used to be called Corinthian values: gentlemanly ideals of fair play, sportsmanship and the desirability of not kicking a man when he is down. The wonder of modern professional sports, with their teenage soccer millionaires, mass migrations to overseas tournaments and stud fees running into six figures, is not that cheating should dominate the headlines but that so many elements of the bygone amateur ethic should survive. After all, if international football were entirely corrupt...
...state is not as far along as I thought: this sure ain’t Boston.According to his online biography, Bennett has a daughter, Dana, who is college aged. Does he act the same way in dealings with his daughter as he does in dealings with Jennifer Martin? I wonder what Dana Bennett thinks of her father’s good ol’ boy politics of late.Lucy M. Caldwell ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, is a history and science concentrator in Adams House. She neither hunts nor listens to much country music...
...know. All the key facts are veiled in secrecy, as they must be. So it's impossible to know from the outside whether it's on the level or not. But with another election looming, it seems we're about to get a bunch of new chances to wonder...
...Avon, Massachusetts, U.S. I found the cover image of al-Zarqawi's face covered by a red X extremely eye-catching but also troubling, as it reminded me of the May 7, 1945, issue of Time, which had an image of Adolf Hitler and an almost identical X. I wonder if it is legitimate to compare al-Zarqawi with Hitler, the latter having far exceeded al-Zarqawi in his crimes against humanity. But then, it is a blessing that al-Zarqawi has been stopped before such a comparison really could be legitimate. Simon Nicholas Cologne, Germany Al-Zarqawi appeared...
...aren't the leading young novelists anymore, who are? It's not an idle question. The novel is one of the most vital cultural resources we have--a private, potent means of sharing the unspeakableness of daily life with one another. So it's only natural to wonder who's taking care of the novel--who's taking up the torch and where exactly they're taking it. Or whether it has gone out. The novel is one of the platforms from which the voice of a generation speaks. And if you listen closely, you'll start to wonder...