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Unlike any number of top jock schools, Notre Dame has always had a university its football team could be proud of. Yet football has forever defined the university. Without those pigskin Saturdays in South Bend, Ind., Notre Dame might be just another very nice Catholic school, a rural Villanova...
Sketchiest moment at Harvard: When both of my dress straps broke at the Quincy formal freshman year and I had to dance the whole night holding my dress up at the top. I’m proud to say that not one boob showed...
...They’re a dirty team,” Fisher said, “and we just knew we had to be mentally prepared for it more than anything, because we knew it was more of a mental battle than [a] physical [one], really. I’m proud of our team because we didn’t let up. We didn’t let them get into our heads...
...myself, and if I define “neighbor” as broadly as Christ did, I cannot support the business of buying and selling slaves, of or shipping people to death camps, or of denying freedom to any of God’s children. American Protestantism should be proud of its role in the abolition movement. Bonhoeffer was right to invoke God against Hitler. Pope John Paul II is a hero for condemning the godless barbarity of Communism...
Wellstone accomplished something that few others have. He made me proud to be a liberal. He was the Bobbie Kennedy of my generation and, I know that, in his world, there is probably no better compliment. Thus, perhaps the best words that can be used to remember Wellstone are the ones used in 1968 to remember Robert F. Kennedy ’48: “[He] need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right...