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...game has been exactly alike.And yet, just a few minutes into the game last Saturday, I found myself wondering if my second trip to Princeton would be much like the first.Two years ago I began my career as a Crimson columnist, writing my very first column about a miss-call that cost Harvard the game. Those memories I had pushed so far into the back of my mind slowly began to creep forward. Let me set the scene. The 2006 edition of the Harvard-Princeton matchup had been highly anticipated, as both teams entered at an undefeated 5-0 mark...
...ability to steer federal money his state’s way, makes it no wonder why Stevens, like Kilpatrick, was so revered at home, at least by certain voting blocs. (Governor Sarah Palin, an on-and-off political ally of Sen. Stevens’s, took her time to call outright for his resignation; at first she asked murkily that he “do what’s right for the people of Alaska...
...accrued 30 generic applications at even more generic establishments only to have the majority swallowed up and effectively lost forever in some pile on an assistant supervisor’s desk. Occasionally I would hear back, but the response was invariably a flat rejection or, once, a confused call from a hardware store clerk who inexplicably assumed I came with Y chromosomes and could lift 200 lbs. I was so desperate at this point I tried to play along, but eventually he found me out.Enter IceScapes Italian Ice & Frozen Treats, a modest joint near my house that sprung...
When she first stepped onto the national stage—beyond just questioning the efficacy (or rather, existence) of his plans—Sarah Palin tried to call Barack Obama out for manufacturing his image. “When the roar of the crowd fades away…when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot—what exactly is our opponent’s plan?” she asked in her speech at the Republican National Convention. This line was a calculated attempt to puncture Obama?...
...neither, says Abukeshek, does the Palestinian cause. Their reduced mobility, combined with increasing internet access, has led the stone-throwing Palestinian children who, for many, became the lasting image of the first intifada in the late 1980s and early 90s, to bring their resistance online during the second. Sociologists call the movement "e-Palestine": a feeling of nationhood cultivated online by young members of the fractured diaspora, some living in the confines of the occupied territories; others born and raised in exile and connected to Palestine at a remove of several generations. With the internet domain suffix ".ps," this young...