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...team laden with young and inexperienced skaters, Harvard must depend on its veteran statesmen...
...Licensed to Ill, and continued to champion the cause of Tibetan freedom. But in much the same way that Condoleezza Rice's oft repeated desire to be commissioner of the NFL hardly makes her a jock, the Beasties' hopes for a free Tibet don't make them statesmen. The Tibet thing was just, you know, something they kind of wished would happen. But the absence of new Beastie music has had the effect of magnifying the wise and obscuring the wiseass. "That's strategy," says Horovitz. "We figure if we space our music out over years and years...
...quite one year later, the freshman enters today’s annual spring game as the wide receiving corps’ senior statesmen with more Saturday snaps at the position than nearly all his peers combined...
...have 185 masters.” (He has more today.) Those “masters” in the General Assembly include the Castros, Mugabes, Assads and Kim Jong-Il’s of the world. Such amoral legitimizing of totalitarian thugs alongside democratic statesmen once prompted former U.S. ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan to call the United Nations “a theater of the absurd, a decomposing corpse, and an insane asylum...
Many lawyers take only a mechanistic view of law, Fisher said. "Many act more like guns for hire than statesmen or wise human beings," he commented...