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Champi connected with wide receiver Pete Varney on a slant pattern to pick up the final two points, and the game ended 29-29, prompting the now infamous Crimson headline, “Harvard beats Yale...
When the Taliban lost this capital of northern Afghanistan, they set the pattern for the war. After days of relentless pounding by American bombers, the Islamic militia simply had no stomach for a fight...
...Liberty with a live dove behind bars in its stomach. It would seem Iran is still as furiously anti-U.S. as it was in 1979. Such propaganda hardly fits with recent signals of improved cooperation prompted by the Afghan war, but it is in keeping with a pattern. Whenever relations have become too cozy in the past, Iran's hard-liners step up their anti-American rhetoric. But this time many high-ranking officials, including some former hostage takers, refused to endorse the embassy exhibit. And even amid the archaic, almost risible propaganda, there was a clear dictate freshly...
...write poems with attention to what sounds good. Sometimes this means that they will have meter or rhyme. Right now I’ve been writing poems using syllabics where each stanza has a pattern of numbers of syllables in each lines—a haiku is a type of syllabic poem. Marianne Moore uses this form a lot in her early poetry. She’s known for precision, she’s interested in classification of things...
...This recent injection] continues the pattern we see in the death penalty,” Bright said. “It’s imposed upon the poor. It’s imposed upon African-Americans. It’s imposed upon youth and the disabled...