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...She’s highly competitive,” Paolucci added. “She may be a little on the quiet side, but don’t let that fool you...She has that fire inside of her that burns...She’s one of the most competitive kids we’ve ever had and one of the most competitive people I’ve ever known...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: McGill Unable To Contain Senior | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

Cantor, Representative Eric • fool is made of self by with the suggestion that an uninsured cancer-ridden woman should just find some charitable organization to pay for her operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...traction without bringing at least one new idea to the table. If Republicans want to challenge the president, garner ideas; trying to publicly humiliate Obama can only backfire. Not only are the means Republicans have been using inappropriate, the end they are seeking to achieve—making a fool of Obama—seems improbable. And besides, “Obama-ism” doesn’t even have a nice ring...

Author: By Nafees A. Syed | Title: Republican Shoe-Throwers | 9/24/2009 | See Source »

...every now and then and usually it’s so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.” There are also moments of humor— “It was simply that he didn’t fool me with that world-weary, seen-it-all manner of his. So he’d been through a war. So he’d been on TV a couple times. So his dick was a foot long. God almighty! I’m surrounded by a pack of rabid dogs...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bolaño’s Quiet Terror | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

...with some war or famine or calling to give them purpose. So they fight.The fighting never finds purpose, and the fighting never becomes a purpose in and of itself. Nor does boxing become some sort of metaphor for life or pseudo-fascist cathartic experience. Gardener’s no fool. If anything, boxing becomes a symbol for the sort of self-flagellation these men undergo in their blind need for a spiritual home. Far from heroic, or even sympathetic, Gardener renders them as drifters, dangerous pilgrims wandering in amnesiac hazes or fevered dreams: “In the midst...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Frontiers of American Tragedy | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

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