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With 20 seconds left, Bevilacqua initiated from behind the cage, on the goalie's right. He split dodged, so effectively that his defender slipped, which allowed him through. When he got within range of the crease, natural instinct took over...
...walked him [the defender] for a minute, because I wanted to slow him down," Bevilacqua said. "I hadn't used my best move, my split dodge all day, so I wanted to go with that. He bit on the fake and I got to the crease. I leaped in and got into a little bit of trouble, but as soon as I let the ball go I knew...
...knows his days are numbered," says a ranking Israeli army officer. "We're after him, the Palestinians are after him, and he's trying to do everything he can before one of us catches him, dead or alive." A cohort in the Gaza Strip called talk of a split "ridiculous," but added, "I know there are independent ideas on the interpretation and application of orders...
...take stock for a moment. To name just a few random things we did in a hundred years: we split the atom, invented jazz and rock, launched airplanes and landed on the moon, concocted a general theory of relativity, devised the transistor and figured out how to etch millions of them on tiny microchips, discovered penicillin and the structure of DNA, fought down fascism and communism, bombed Guernica and painted the bombing of Guernica, developed cinema and television, built highways and wired the world. Not to mention the peripherals these produced, such as sitcoms and cable channels, "800" numbers...
There is often an odd split-mind at Harvard, where we can study Plato's Symposium and the fragments of Sappho, Allen Ginsberg and Adrienne Rich '51, yet emerge from the seminar room to find only disgust and fear in expressions of homosexual desire on campus. If Harvard and our larger communities are to accept queers, we must accept them culturally as well as politically. We must accept them as individuals with the capacity for love and lust. The outspoken nature of "Clit Notes" is in part a protest against people such as Oppenheim who consider lesbians de facto excluded...