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November 14, 2008 by Cyrus Patell

Signing Up the Team

Major League baseball’s free agent-signing season began today, with the Yankees making a monster offer to the Milwaukee Brewers’ pitcher C. C. Sabathia. They’re apparently also planning big offers to free-agent pitchers Derek Lowe and A.J. Burnett. The Mets are going to be more conservative with their money this off-season, but they’re still hoping to [...]

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November 4, 2008 by Cyrus Patell

Election Day Diary

It’s election day, arguably the most important election of my voting life. I’m going to be updating this post in the course of the day. 7:05 a.m. We’re in line to vote. Lucky for us, the polling place is just in our the back of the first floor of our residence hall. Things are a [...]

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November 4, 2008 by Cyrus Patell

Election Eve Hope

As I turn in for the night, it’s after midnight and already, technically, election day. Nate Silver writes that “the national polling picture has cleared up considerably. Barack Obama is on the verge of a victory, perhaps a decisive victory, in the race for the White House.” And he notes that, according to his models, [...]

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November 1, 2008 by Cyrus Patell

Reframing Reagan

As I wrote in my post “Thanks Again, Sarah,” I spent some time during a lecture in my Conversations of the West class earlier this term discussing John Winthrop’s sermon “A Model of Christian Charity,” which draws on the Sermon on the Mount to describe the Puritans in America as a “city on a hill” [...]