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Unless you count Walter F. Mondale's "I will raise your taxes" speech at the 1984 Democratic convention, that was the last genuine attempt to impose discipline on a nation of spoiled brats. Absent a major war, there seemed no way to get people to see past their narrow self interests...
Well now we're in a major war, and lo and behold, we still can't get people to see past their narrow self-interest. Even war itself is no longer the moral equivalent...
Last year the squads faced off under similar circumstances and Princeton came away with a narrow four-point win. The satisfaction of revenge for the Crimson will have to wait for at least another year, however, and maybe even longer, as a young, talented Princeton (7-1, 7-0) team posted a 163-137 win over Harvard (4-1, 4-1 Ivy) to maintain an unblemished Ivy League record...
...concrete walls seal off the narrow cobblestone streets leading to the Latvian parliament in Riga's Old Town. Four barricades block access to the small square in front of the building. Milling around bonfires near the parliament's entrance, wearing combat gear and carrying AK-47 assault rifles, are militiamen loyal to the republic's separatist government. At other bonfires in nearby Cathedral Square, hundreds of Latvians stand vigil through the night, listening to passionate music and somber poetry blaring from loudspeakers...
Hoffman says the professors will make an attempt to narrow down the course's rather enormous scope by concentrating on Britain, France and Germany...