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...charge, as minor magicians, begins simply: to stand up for the change we like and defend that which we do not; to recognize the world as interconnected enough that our actions matter. Because after being chosen, we have to choose--and it's scarier, larger, harder than being chosen. But it completes...
...This was an extremely important win for us," sophomore forward Joey Yenne said. "This was our first real test in Ivy play, and Penn is one of the toughest teams we have to face to defend our league title...
...equal number of police to counter the army's threat. In regions such as the northern town of Kolasin, 19 miles from the Serbian border, the two armed sides are taking each other's measure. "If there is a war, we will have no other choice but to defend the majority of Montenegrins," confides a dour-looking police officer at a Kolasin cafe...
...need be, your worship, I can summon witnesses to defend my way of life, such as it is. In "Memories of West Street and Lepke," Robert Lowell lamented, "I was so out of things," to indicate he was praising the condition. Unhappily, one of the things he was out of was his mind. In a movie, Oscar Levant told Joan Crawford, "Don't blame me, lady. I didn't make the world. I barely live on it." Somerset Maugham dignified the dreaming-out-the-window business. "A state of reverie," he said, "does not avoid reality; it accedes to reality...
...initiative against racial preferences. Lieberman said that "the current system of group preferences has to end. For after all, if you discriminate in favor of one group on the basis of race, you thereby discriminate against another group on the basis of race." He concluded that "you can't defend policies that are based on group preferences." Fast forward to the Democratic National Convention this summer, when Lieberman quickly repudiated these earlier comments. He announced that he had changed his views, saying that he "did not understand the language" of Proposition 209, which he had so eloquently supported...