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...piano player trying to play a piece so well that his fingers just walk on the keys. A tennis player tries to make his shots so well that he knows where they’re going.”COLUMBIA CLASSICThe Crimson sent co-captain Scott Denenberg and sophomore Chris Clayton to New York to play in the Columbia Classic, another three-day event that ended on Sunday. The tournament featured tough competition from some of the best players in the Northeast, and Fish felt that Denenberg and Clayton would benefit from the challenge.“That...
...long essay in January's Vanity Fair by Christopher Hitchens, best known for his broadsides against Mother Teresa and defenses of the Iraq war. His first theory as to why--in a nutshell--is that women don't need to make men laugh to impress them. (Either that, Chris, or they just don't try that hard in front of you.) His second--in a smaller nutshell--is that they make babies. "Those who risk agony and death to bring children into this fiasco simply can't afford to be too frivolous," he wrote. "They are innately aware...
...boot camp of hell, and a sensitive man could die from it. "You don't belong in the Nam, man," a warwise soldier tells Chris (Charlie Sheen), who stands in for Stone as the narrator of Platoon. "This ain't your place at all." It is, though, and that is the rite-of-passage tragedy the film describes. For Chris is torn between the conflicting charismata of two sergeants: Elias (Willem Dafoe), a natural jungle fighter, and Barnes (Tom Berenger), a pure-blooded killer. Both men have a nice sense of their power?over themselves, their men and the enemy...
...winning South Carolina in 2004 and his message about reducing poverty and strong rhetoric about pulling troops out from Iraq - a war black voters have consistently opposed at higher percentages than white voters - contrast with Obama's more cautious positioning on that issue. Both Biden and Connecticut's Chris Dodd appeared last week at Martin Luther King Day events in South Carolina...
...region, also have a slightly different take on the role of the militias in the area, who they say are generally not responsible for most of the attacks against coalition forces. "It is rogue elements inside the militias that are causing most of the problems," explained Major Chris Ormond-King, a British Army spokesman. "The militias as whole are not inherently a problem. In fact in some neighborhoods they help control crime, and need to be included in part of the political solution...