Word: calmed
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Harvard immediately connected on a two point conversion and then recovered the ensuing onsides kick. All of Harvard stadium, shivering in freezing November weather, seemed mesmerized by the sheer improbability of what they were witnessing. Champi, with eerie calm and utter precision, once again marched Harvard down the field, and with but a few seconds left on the clock, had but one final play to reach the endzone...
...eeriness and surrounds both that Harvard-Yale football matchup and this Harvard-Yale presidential contest, perhaps, just perhaps, we can take some measure of comfort in knowing that there is a larger, guiding force that will see us through this contest--hopefully with the same sense of calm that Champi exhibited 32 years...
Tocqueville said that one "can still consider the election of the president as a period of national crisis... The entire nation falls into a feverish state." But then, he wrote, "As soon as fortune has pronounced... this ardor is dissipated, everything becomes calm, and the river, one moment overflowed, returns peacefully...
...Admiration for American Calm...
...beyond the incredulity and the joking, the most widespread response worldwide was praise for the way Americans and their politicians have handled the meltdown. Two days after the election the results aren't known, but the streets are calm, the nation is going about its business and nobody doubts the stability of the system or its ability to resolve the mess. In countless other countries, there'd be blood on the streets...