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...that is why reporters hate to ask such questions. But in the world of amateur athletics, after all, this is true drama. This is how emotions are conveyed, how the athletes and non-athletes bridge the gap. What it required, though, was pain: a reopening of a predestined wound...
Last year, Harvard finished with the 22nd rank in the nation, and wound up with a seventh-place finish in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA). This was largely based on the outstanding achievements of a few; the team as a whole struggled to a 1-14 record in dual meets on the season...
...policy. The entire Democratic Convention was an exercise in avoiding the issue. Kerry spent four days talking not about Iraq but about Vietnam. This glaring non sequitur gave Kerry the distinction of having a convention with no bounce. Even worse, by gratuitously bringing up Vietnam, a still bleeding psychic wound, Kerry opened himself to weeks of politically damaging attack from embittered fellow swift-boat veterans...
...young-adult trilogy His Dark Materials. In a world in which Madonna writes children's books and hip grownup film critics put Shrek on their 10 Best lists, it should have come as no surprise that a musical for little kids called A Year with Frog and Toad wound up on Broadway last year--and even got a Tony nomination for Best Musical...
...carnival assault on liberals. But contentiousness can no longer be in the President's interest if he wants to get anything done. His success now depends on his ability to maintain his principles, yes, but to do so in a way that seeks to heal the deep public wound we have suffered. His instinctive style defeated John Kerry's cerebral calculations. The question now is whether Bush's excellent political instincts lead him back to first things, the things he promised in 2000: to be a more compassionate conservative, to run a humble foreign policy, to be a uniter...