Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time defending Patriot League Player of the year, junior quarterback Ryan Vena, kept the defensive front of the Crimson off-balance all afternoon, running the option to near perfection. Vena's ability to stay poised in the pocket and deliver accurate passes, as well as to run up field when necessary also kept Harvard on its heels...
Colgate junior quarterback Ryan Vena, who was held out last week with a right shoulder injury but will return against Harvard, was the Patriot League player of the year as a freshman and sophomore...
...Some cost-cutting tips for next time: There's a very serviceable Camp Terrorism scene in Patriot Games (1992), and some great Sudan footage in Khartoum (1966). Heck, I'm sure Pfizer would have let us blow up its factory, if only to drive up the price of Viagra. With a little help from Industrial Light and Magic (pro bono for Hollywood Bill, I'm sure), it all would have looked fine...
Then there's Linda Tripp, whose voice we heard for the first time this week. Addressing an ungrateful nation from the courthouse beach, as the grand-jury stakeout is known, and shaking like a leaf, Tripp made a desperate effort to humanize herself as a truth-seeking patriot, a "suburban mom" protecting her kids. "Who am I?" she began. "I'm you," she answered, "an average American." I shouted back at the TV, "No, you're NOT! Take that back...
...woods by his former commander. Now, the man who partly inspired the "Rambo" character hopes to do the same for fugitive accused bomber Eric Robert Rudolph. Retired Green Beret colonel James "Bo" Gritz, the most decorated soldier in American history and a leader of the right-wing "patriot" movement, plans to enter the backwoods of Macon County, N.C., on August 15, hoping to bring Rudolph in safely...