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...impressive stats may a bit misleading, however. Dartmouth has a non-conference schedule loaded with weak teams -Division 2 schools like UMass-Lowell and Stony Brook -a sharp contrast to the Crimson's non-conference schedule which included 1998 NCAA champion Fresno State...
...female students to act like men in order to gain power. It becomes more difficult for women to speak about vulnerability. Women who want to be senators or CEOs think, “maybe I shouldn’t report the rape. People will find out I was weak.” Women at Brigham Young University can’t speak out because sex is an action against the church. Women at Harvard are fighting to become part of the patriarchy. They put up with the rules...
...Terriers added two insurance runs in the top half of the seventh. With runners on first and second, Parker hit a weak grounder back to the pitcher. An ordinary play turned ugly as Godfree dropped the ball, allowing both Parker to reach safely and a run to score...
...fact--came bop, the dizzying complexity of which (and the fact that you can't dance to it) allowed rock, via R&B, to become the popular music. Magnanimity, the crown-virtue of swing, yielded to rock's rebelliousness--which is not a virtue at all, but the weak, ugly stepchild of courage. Nowadays, the glorious mixed-regime-in-music has devolved into plain democracy-in-music: those concerned with musical excellence via jazz can still subsist (democracy is colorful, after all), but the regime is ruled by today's popular music, a low medley of anthems to equality...
...night are no less attractive than a swaying kelp forest. The trouble is that nature usually loses in this tug-of-war, in part because it cannot compete in modern terms. Nature is undemocratic; in the wilds, wet or dry, the individual has no dignity. The strong eat the weak, and all one's humanistic ideals of equality and justice are drowned in acts of casual murder...