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...Making those losing streaks so painful for the players is how easily avoidable they have been. The 2005-06 team’s skid began with two last-second losses to Cornell and Princeton, while two years ago, the Crimson fell to Princeton in double overtime despite 33 points from Housman as the first of its five straight losses...
...light pouring in around her. (And could he really be sure that she was not glowing?) He spoke: “Let me kiss you with the kisses of my mouth, Roxanna: for your love is even better than getting drunk.” Roxanna fainted at once. She fell gently into Frederick’s waiting arms, and while he could not manage to lift her entirely from the ground, he dragged her lovingly back to the bedroom. She awoke, and they prayed once more. And then again. And then a third time.It was just then that Felicity, pacing...
...closest California has come to an "urban" earthquake in recent decades was the 6.7 magnitude 1994 quake in Northridge, a suburb roughly 30 miles from downtown Los Angeles. Parking structures collapsed, overpasses fell down, 9,000 people were injured but only 57 people were killed. Again, most of the shaking occurred in the mountains...
...distance between those two Grant Park scenes says a lot about how American liberalism fell, and why in the Obama era it could become - once again - America's ruling creed. The coalition that carried Obama to victory is every bit as sturdy as America's last two dominant political coalitions: the ones that elected Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. And the Obama majority is sturdy for one overriding reason: liberalism, which average Americans once associated with upheaval, now promises stability instead...
...industry was to behave. Conservatives wailed that economic freedom was under assault, but most ordinary Americans thanked God that Washington was securing their bank deposits, helping labor unions boost their wages, giving them a pension when they retired and pumping money into the economy to make sure it never fell into depression again. They didn't feel unfree; they felt secure. For three and a half decades, from the mid-1930s through the '60s, government imposed order on the market. The jungle of American capitalism became a well-tended garden, a safe and pleasant place for ordinary folks to stroll...