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I was not aware of a film insulting to Islam until American embassies were attacked in
"Innocence of Muslims" is said to have had a budget of $5 million. From the look of it, maybe 40 of those dollars made it to the screen — you'd see better production values in a porn video. Better acting and more natural dialogue, too. Of course, it's not the quality of the movie that's causing the problem.
Islam forbids depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. "Innocence" not only depicts him, but also shows him as a philanderer, child molester, killer and feckless fop. The actor who plays him seems to be channeling John Ritter, circa "Three's Company."
So yes, "Innocence of Muslims" is, indeed, an insult to Islam. And to film. And to intelligence.
All that said, the greatest offense here is not this crude attempt at provocation. It is, rather, the mobs of Muslims storming the gates of American embassies in
Not to trivialize a deadly situation, but in considering these would-be defenders of Islam, one is struck above all else by their childishness. I am thinking of a specific scenario familiar to any parent of two children or more:
The kids are in the back seat, and suddenly you hear the dreaded words: "He's touching me!" It is whined at a pitch of such fevered urgency that if you didn't know better, you'd swear one child was killing the other. But no, it's only that child number two has discovered she can, with little effort, drive child number one into spasms of apoplexy. So she keeps doing it till you hear yourself yelling, "Don't make me turn this car around!"
Yes, the second child has gone out of her way to needlessly provoke her sibling. But you are also irked at the sibling for being so easily provoked, for not understanding that if he simply stopped giving his sister the reaction she craves, she'd stop doing the stupid thing.
It is that dynamic we see play out repeatedly among Muslim extremists. We saw it in 2005 when riots erupted over a cartoon depicting Muhammad. ("He's touching me!) We saw it in 2011 when riots erupted after a
What's next? Riots because some provocateur sculpts a face on a cucumber and calls it Muhammad? Murder because some moron draws a stick figure having sex and says it's Muhammad? There are 7 billion people on this planet and 6 billion of them are not Muslims. Do these geniuses propose to throw a tantrum every time one of those 6 billion goes online to insult Islam? Would you give that many people power and permission to make you crazy?
Children, at least, have the excuse of being children when they fail to understand how an over-the-top reaction only ensures further provocation. The hotbloods of Islamic fundamentalism are old enough to know better. They ought to grow up.
That must be the message they hear from the rest of the world and, in particular, from their co-religionists. Terrorism, intolerance and these repeated outbursts injure their faith more grievously than some obscure movie ever could.
They are angry it disrespects Islam. But they don't seem to respect Islam all that much themselves.
Leonard Pitts Jr., winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, is a columnist for the Miami Herald, 1 Herald Plaza,


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October 28, 2013
Vol. 29 , No. 04
Lunch with a Leader: Yes I Can! Short Stories of Creative Problem Solving
LUNCHEON 11:30 a.m.; PROGRAM 12:00 p.m.
Kevin Tan led an International Finance Corporation (a member of the World Bank Group) project team to facilitate the development of a risk management department for China's National Council for Social Security Fund in 2004. The resulting project report was the first such report submitted to China's State Council by the Social Security Fund, and the Fund adopted 72 out of 78 explicit recommendations. This success led to another IFC-funded project (also led by Kevin and completed in 2006) to facilitate the investment infrastructure for overseas investments for the Fund.
In 2005, Kevin became the first Chief Representative of The Northern Trust Company in China, where he remained until January 2009. Since then, Kevin has been Outsourced Chief Investment Officer for various pension plans varying in size from $45 million to over $1 billion. After 26-years in Corporate America, including 5 years on Wall Street, Kevin decided to pursue a Ph.D. in Economics focusing on market efficiency. Previously, Kevin earned an MBA from the University of Chicago and a bachelor's degree from Claremont McKenna College.
Self-described as a "full-time Dad and part-time Senior Vice President," Kevin will present examples of creative solutions, including getting an elusive job interview, successful sales in China and balancing work/life priorities.
The Crooked Mirror: A Memoir of Polish-Jewish Reconciliation
An estimated eighty percent of American Jews are of Polish decent. Most Jewish Poles who immigrated to the United States remember their homeland as a place of murderous anti-Semitism. Stories of fleeing violent hatred and persecution are passed down through many Jewish-American families, and to this day Poland is not regarded as a tolerant or welcoming country for Jews. In The Crooked Mirror: A Memoir of Polish-Jewish Reconciliation (2013), author Louise Steinman challenges assumptions about modern Polish anti-Semitism.
For centuries prior to World War II, Poland had been an epicenter of European Jewish life. Not only was Poland's Jewish population nearly extinguished during the Holocaust, but in the subsequent decades of communist rule it was taboo to discuss any of the country's rich Jewish history. It wasn't until recently that Poles and Jews began to honestly examine their entwined history. In her memoir, Steinman returns to a small Polish town where her family lived for generations, and becomes a witness and participant in Poland's reawakening to its Jewish past. This important book captures the blossoming of a vital new era of Polish-Jewish reconciliation.
Steinman is a writer and literary curator, and her work often deals with memory, history, and reconciliation. In 2002 she wrote the acclaimed memoir The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War, and illuminates how war changed one generation and shaped another. Her first book, The Knowing Body: The Artist As Storyteller in Contemporary Performance (1995), is a critically acclaimed study of the performing arts. Her articles and essays have appeared in prominent national publications such as The New York Times and Washington Post.
The Athenaeum series "Jewish Renewal in Poland" is jointly sponsored by Hillel of the Claremont Colleges. The final event of this series will be the Ger Mandolin Orchestra on Tuesday, November 12th.
Man Versus Corpse
Zadie Smith is a prolific essayist, novelist, and short story writer. Born to an English father and a Jamaican mother in London in 1975, Smith graduated with a degree in English literature from Cambridge in 1997. Just three years later she published first novel, White Teeth (2000), to a monumental amount of praise from critical and public sources.
White Teeth tells the story of three ethnically diverse families living in contemporary London. The book won a variety of awards and prizes, including but not limited to: the Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and two BT Ethnic and Multicultural Media Awards. White Teeth has been translated into over twenty languages and was adapted as a television series for Channel 4 in the fall of 2002.
Zadie Smith's second novel, The Autograph Man, published in 2002, is a story of loss, obsession and the nature of celebrity. The novel won the 2003 Jewish Quarterly Literary Prize for Fiction. Her third novel, On Beauty, was published in 2005, and won the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction. She also wrote a nonfiction book in 2006 about writing entitled Fail Better. Her book of essays, Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays, came out in 2009.
In her latest novel, NW (2012), Smith writes on four locals living in northwest London as they struggle to navigate the city and create adult lives outside of the council estate of their childhood. NW was named as one of the New York Times '10 Best Books of 2012.' According to NPR, the book offers a "nuanced, disturbing exploration of the boundaries, some porous, some impenetrable, between people living cheek by jowl in urban centers where the widening gap between haves and have-nots has created chasms into which we're all in danger of falling."
Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of Creative Writing at New York University and her visit to CMC is sponsored by the Athenaeum and the Gould Center of Humanistic Studies.
What We Learn From Literature
Undoubtedly one of the leading philosophers of art at work today, Gregory Currie is currently a professor of philosophy at the University of York, following previous appointments in New Zealand, Australia, and elsewhere in the UK. His published work covers a wide range of topics in aesthetics - fiction, art, cinema, narratives – as well as issues in philosophy of mind and cognition. His books include An Ontology of Art (1989), The Nature of Fiction (2008), Recreative Minds: Imagination in Philosophy and Psychology (2003) (co-written with Ian Ravenscroft), Arts and Minds (2005), and most recently Narratives and Narrators: A Philosophy of Stories (2012). Educated at the London School of Economics and the University of California, Berkeley, Currie is Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and has held fellowships at Bristol, Cambridge, Oxford and the Australian National University. He also serves as an editor for the journal Mind and Language.
Currently at work on a project on "Literature as an Object of Knowledge," Currie published a piece in The New York Times in June expressing skepticism about whether engagement with great works of literature can make us morally better people. As he there argued, there is surprisingly little evidence to support the commonly held view that literature is a 'force for good,' i.e., that it can enhance our moral sensitivity. Moreover, Currie rejects arguments that great literature can turn us into moral experts by showing that such arguments rely on a mistaken notion of expertise. His talk at the Athenaeum, entitled "What we learn from literature," will pick up on these themes.
Boston and Beyond: Homeland Security and the Hometown
LUNCHEON 11:30 a.m.; PROGRAM 12:00 p.m.
The Boston Marathon bombings of last April brought renewed attention to the issue of terrorism within the United States. While federal authorities played an important role in breaking the case, state and local police were also crucial. As the former Governor of Pennsylvania and the first Secretary of the federal Department of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge is uniquely qualified to discuss the role of state and local governments in fighting terrorism. Governor Ridge will survey the relationship between them and the federal government, how that relationship has developed, and where it is headed.
Following the tragic events of September 11th, 2001, Tom Ridge became the first Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and, on January 24, 2003, became the first Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, serving until February 2005. The creation of the country's 15th Cabinet Department marked the largest reorganization of government since the Truman administration and another call to service for the former soldier, congressman and governor of Pennsylvania. During his DHS tenure, Secretary Ridge worked with more than 180,000-plus employees from a combined 22 agencies to create an agency that facilitated the flow of people and goods, instituted layered security at air, land and seaports, developed a unified national response and recovery plan, protected critical infrastructure, integrated new technology and improved information sharing worldwide. Mr. Ridge previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives for six terms from 1983 to 1995, and was twice elected Governor of Pennsylvania, serving as the state's 43rd governor from 1995 to 2001. Governor Ridge's aggressive technology strategy helped fuel the state's advances in economic development, education, health care and the environment.
Secretary Ridge is currently president and CEO of Ridge Global, an international security and risk management advisory firm, headquartered in Washington, DC. In March of this year, Secretary Ridge co-founded, with former White House cyber czar Howard Schmidt, the strategic advisory firm, Ridge Schmidt Cyber, an executive services firm that helps leaders in business and government navigate the increasing demands of cybersecurity.
An engaging and dynamic speaker, Secretary Ridge regularly addresses audiences on a range of issues, including international business, security and leadership. Additionally, he serves on the boards of the Institute for Defense Analyses, the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, and other private and public entities. He is currently chairman of SSTI's Board of Trustees, the National Organization on Disability and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's National Security Task Force, and along with Gen. Tommy Franks (Ret.), serves as national co-chairman of the Flight 93 National Memorial Fundraising Campaign. Secretary Ridge earned a scholarship to Harvard, graduating with honors in 1967.After his first year at Penn State University's Dickinson School of Law, he was drafted into the U.S. Army, where he served as an infantry staff sergeant in Vietnam, earning the Bronze Star for Valor, the Combat Infantry Badge and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry. After returning to Pennsylvania and to Dickinson, he earned his law degree.
Secretary Tom Ridge's Athenaeum lecture is sponsored by the Rose Institute of State and Local Government.
Moby-Dick and the Mythology of Oil
DINNER 6:00 p.m.; PROGRAM 6:45 p.m. PARENTS DINING ROOM
In the novel Moby-Dick (1851), Herman Melville captured the American whaling industry at its peak. In Moby-Dick and the Mythology of Oil: An Admonition for the Petroleum Age (2013), author Robert Wagner draws illuminating parallels between Melville's classic novel and the modern pursuit of petroleum resources. Wagner finds important lessons in Moby-Dick for the American economy and American ideals of environmental stewardship. His interpretation of Melville gives Moby-Dick new relevance in today's world.
Before receiving his Ph.D. in Mythological Studies from the Pacifica Graduate Institute in 2008, Robert Wagner spent his career as a commercial and investment banker to the oil and gas industries. He worked primarily in Texas, but focused on the Middle East during the conflict ridden periods of the early 1970's. Through his work, Wagner became an expert virtually all aspects of the oil industry. He received an MBA in Finance from the Stern School of NYU in 1971.
Photo Exhibit Showcasing the Silent Strength of Liu Xia
LUNCHEON 11:30 a.m.; PROGRAM 12:00 p.m.
Liu Xia is one of the most prominent contemporary Chinese artists, but her work is censured throughout her native country. Since January 2011 she has been isolated under house arrest in Beijing in response to her husband, Liu Xiaobo, winning the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. On November 1st, the Athenaeum will open The Silent Strength of Liu Xia, an exhibition of some of her latest photography. The original prints for this exhibition needed to be smuggled out of China in order to be showcased. In these 26 photographs, Liu Xia uses plastic dolls to create unsettling and uncanny images that represent the pain and suffering of the Chinese people. Andrew Nathan, Professor of Political Science at Colombia University, writes that these "strangely disturbing and moving photographs reveal profound truths about today's China, not only in their content and style, but also in the history of their creation, suppression, and now, their exhibition abroad." Prior to its censorship, Liu Xiu's paintings, photography, and poetry were renowned in China for decades.
Guy Sorman is the Exhibition Curator for these photographs, and is one of France's leading public intellectuals. He is the author of Economics Does Not Lie: A Defense of the Free Market in a Time of Crisis (2009), and served as an economic advisor to the French prime minister. Later in his career, he was appointed as a global advisor to Korean President Lee Myung Bak.
How Chinese Immigrants Became Model Minorities: Intellectuals, Refugees, and Immigration Selection, 1908-1962
In her Athenaeum talk Madeline Hsu will explore contemporary discussions of immigration controls and reforms through analyzing the dramatic transformation of Chinese immigrants in American society. Before World War II, Chinese immigrants were regarded as a dangerous "yellow peril" and were targeted by the first enforced immigration restrictions passed by Congress. However alongside these restrictions, Chinese students retained rights of entry. This practical selection policy that admitted immigrants based on educational and economic criteria repositioned the Chinese as model immigrants.
Madeline Y. Hsu is Director of the Center for Asian American Studies and Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. She wrote Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration Between the United States and South China, 1882-1943 (Stanford University Press, 2000) which received the 2002 Association for Asian American Studies History Book Award. She is editor of Chinese American Transnational Politics (University of Illinois University Press, 2010) and co-editor with Sucheng Chan of Chinese Americans and the Politics of Culture (Temple University Press, 2008). Her current research project, tentatively titled "Strategic Migrations: Immigration Selection and How the Yellow Peril Became a Model Minority, 1872-1966," explores intersections between American foreign policy goals, immigration laws and practices, and shifting racial ideologies through the migration of Chinese intellectuals.
The Small, Still Voice of the Past: How Memory Studies Changed Historical Truth in China, and Beyond
Vera Schwarcz is an acclaimed historian and poet whose work combines poetry and history to explore and understand the past. Her latest book, Ancestral Intelligence, depicts the cultural landscape of contemporary China. By comparing classic and modern Chinese poetry, Schwarcz shows a degradation of culture and humanity in Chinese history. It focuses on the work of mid 20th Century dissident poet Chen Yinke, and provides a biographical, historical, linguistic, and poetic interpretation of his work. Yibing Huang, poet and professor of Chinese at Connecticut College, says that Vera Schwarcz "Proves that a poet and a historian are one and the same: both must work against the flow of time and revive buried voices." Schwarcz has made the quest for remembrance a central theme in all of her works, and by combining history and poetry she offers unique and meaningful scholarly interpretations on this subject.
Vera Schwarz pursued degrees in East Asian studies and history at Vassar, Yale, and Stanford, and was a member of the first group of exchange scholars to be sent to China in the spring of 1979. Her work has been nominated for the National Jewish Book Award, and she is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Schwarz is the Freeman Professor of East Asian Studies and director of the Freeman Center for East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University.
The Warsaw Ghetto Rebellion: A New Look
LUNCHEON 11:30 a.m.; PROGRAM 12:00 p.m.
In this lunchtime lecture, Professor Bauer will be provide new insights into the history of the largest armed rebellion of Jews that occurred during the Holocaust. In the wake of the mass deportations of some 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto in 1942, underground Jewish resistance movements formed. They secured arms while calling for the remnant population to resist going to the trains that would take them to their deaths. On April 19, 1943, special German SS and police forces entered Warsaw to crush the rebellion and liquidate the ghetto. Some 750 armed Jewish men and women fought back. The Jewish Fighting Organization (in Polish, the Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa, ZOB) led this effort, but recent research in Israel and Poland has started to identify other disparate groups that participated in uprising. Professor Bauer will provide a closer look at these individual groups and their month-long struggle with the Germans.
Yehuda Bauer is Professor Emeritus of History and Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Academic Advisor to Yad Vashem. He was born in Prague in 1926 and emigrated to Israel in 1939. He completed his doctorate at Hebrew University with a thesis on the British Mandate of Palestine. Fluent in Czech, Slovak, German, Hebrew, Yiddish, English, French, and Polish, Professor Bauer has written more than 40 books on the Holocaust covering themes such as antisemitism, rescue, resistance, American Jewish responses, survivor testimony, and the early history of Israel. Among his numerous publications are: American Jewry and the Holocaust: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1939-1945, Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1981; Jews for Sale?: Nazi-Jewish Negotiations, New Haven: Yale University Press, October 1994, and Rethinking the Holocaust, New Haven, Yale University, 2001.
In 1998, Bauer was awarded the Israel Prize, the highest civilian award in Israel and in 2001 he was elected a member of the Israeli Academy of Science. Bauer has served as advisor to the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research, and as senior advisor to the Swedish Government on the International Forum on Genocide Prevention.
What is College For? A Defense of the Liberal Arts
On Capitol Hill on June 19, 2013, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Commission on Humanities and Social Sciences led by 53 distinguished members presented a report entitled "The Heart of the Matter." This report intends to advance a dialogue on the importance of the humanities to the future of the country. The report is wide-ranging and unfolds in five sections by describing the value of the humanities in K-12 Education; Two- and Four-Year Colleges; Research; Cultural Institutions and Lifelong Learning; and International Security and Competitiveness. At the heart of "The Heart of the Matter" is an earnest attempt to provide answers to a basic question: what is the value of a liberal arts education? William Deresiewicz, an essayist and author who writes about contemporary culture and society, will seek to answer this question in his talk at the Athenaeum.
William Deresiewicz is a contributing writer for The Nation and a contributing editor for The New Republic and The American Scholar, for which he writes the weekly All Points blog on culture and society. In 2011, Deresiewicz published of A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me about Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter.
Before becoming a full-time writer, Bill Deresiewicz was an English professor at Yale from 1998-2008, where he taught courses in modern British fiction, the Great Books, Indian fiction, and writing. As an academic, he published Jane Austen and the Romantic Poets in 2004 and numerous articles on George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Joseph Conrad. He received his Ph.D. and undergraduate education from Columbia University.
Deresiewicz has also received acclaim for his essays and reviews. He was nominated for National Magazine Awards in 2008, 2009, and 2011 and the National Book Critics Circle's Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing in 2010, 2011, and 2012. David Brooks gave one of his essays a "Sydney" award for magazine writing in 2010. His work, which has been translated into 14 languages, has been anthologized in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011, The Digital Divide: Writings For and Against Facebook, YouTube, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking (2011), and about 19 college readers.
His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Slate, Bookforum, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The London Review of Books. His current book project is Excellent Sheep: Thinking for Yourself, Inventing Your Life, and Other Things the Ivy League Won't Teach You, which will be published in 2014 from Simon & Schuster.
It is a pleasure to have William Deresiewicz take part in the 2013-2014 William F. Podlich Distinguished Visitors Program. This program was generously endowed by CMC alumnus and trustee William F. Podlich '66, whose aim is to enrich the college intellectually by bringing preeminent figures in scholarship, business, and public affairs to campus for extended visits.
Hannah Arendt and the Fearsome-Word-and-Thought-Defying Banality of Evil
Roger Berkowitz is Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and Associate Professor of Politics, Human Rights, and Philosophy at Bard College. His research focuses foremost on questions of justice and jurisprudence, the history and philosophy of science, the relationship of politics and aesthetics, and on the philosophies of Heidegger, Nietzsche, Kant, Plato, Aristotle, and Arendt. In addition to numerous articles, essays, and reviews, he has authored the book The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition (2005), an account of how the rise of science has led to the divorce of law and justice. He has edited a special issue of Law, Culture, and the Humanities on the theme of "Revenge and Justice" (2005) and is the co-editor of Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics (2009) and The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis (2012).
Professor Berkowitz regularly blogs at www.vernunft.org, has recently reviewed the film Hannah Arendt in The Paris Review and has commented on the debates initiated in the film in an op-ed piece for The New York Times titled "Misreading Eichmann in Jerusalem" (July 2013).
He received his B.A. from Amherst College, his J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Roger Berkowitz's talk is sponsored by the Center for Human Rights Leadership at Claremont McKenna College.
Social Economics and Finance
LUNCHEON 12:00 p.m.; PROGRAM 12:30 p.m.
David Hirshleifer is Merage Chair and Professor of Finance at the Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine; he was previously on the faculties of Ohio State University, University of Michigan, and UCLA, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Since July 2011 he has served as the Executive Editor of a top academic journal, the Review of Financial Studies. He has also served as director of the American Finance Association and the Western Finance Association, and as associate editor of several other finance, economics, and strategy journals.
Hirshleifer has published more than 50 papers, several of which have won research awards, including the Smith Breeden Award for outstanding paper in the Journal of Finance. He helped develop the field of behavioral finance, with an emphasis on the psychological basis for market under - and overreactions, and has also worked in the areas of corporate finance and investments. Some of his recent research has been on psychology in firms and markets, social transmission of investment ideas and behavior, and the effect of emotions on stock prices. He research also covers such topics as risk management, determinants of futures prices, social interactions and markets, fads and fashions in economic decisions, and how psychological bias affects political and regulatory decisions.
The study of social interactions is the greatest remaining underexplored continent in economics and finance. Some basic steps forward have been the empirical documentation that people are influenced by the behavior of others in their investment decisions, and theoretical modeling of herding/cascading and how information and behaviors spread along social networks. A crucial new direction is to explore the transmission biases that cause some ideas to spread at the expense of others, and thereby to affect economic decisions. This leads to such questions as: What are the characteristics that help an idea win in the competition for investor attention? How do transmission biases affect savings and risk-taking? How do religion and moral attitudes affect financial decision-making? What causes certain speculative investments, such as a hot tech-IPO, spread through the population like wildfire, and for interest to cool? What causes more general financial ideologies such as value versus growth investing, to evolve and spread? What causes long-run shifts in the popularity of different money management vehicles, such as mutual funds, ETFs, and hedge funds? Modeling the social transmission of investing ideas promises to address such questions, and to explain a number of stylized facts about investor behavior and security prices. Furthermore, lags in social transmission promise to provide a microfoundation for understanding fluctuations in investor sentiment, and market bubbles and crashes. Social finance therefore promises to be a worthy descendant and successor to behavioral finance.
David Hirshleifer's visit is sponsored by the Financial Economics Institute.
"The Best Kind of College is the U.S. SLAC (small liberal arts college), But Why Don't More People Know and Believe That?"
LUNCHEON 11:30 a.m.; PROGRAM 12:00 p.m. PARENTS DINING ROOM
Higher education in the United States, especially institutions and programs that emphasize the liberal arts, has come under attack in many quarters. Some educational reformers are in fact calling for "creative destruction" to up-end the entire system. Largely overlooked in that national controversy, however, are the virtues of the distinctively American model of college, namely the residential small liberal arts college. Professor Seery contends that the U.S. SLAC model should still be recognized the gold standard for education and educational reform, and he blames certain parties for failing to sing adequately the praises of the SLACs, and therewith, of the liberal arts more generally.
John Seery is the George Irving Thompson Memorial Professor of Government and Professor of Politics at Pomona College, where he teaches political theory. He is the author or editor of eight books, including the forthcoming (co-edited with Susan McWilliams), THE BEST KIND OF COLLEGE: AN INSIDERS' GUIDE TO AMERICA'S SMALL LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES. In 2009 the national Phi Beta Kappa Society honored him with their Sidney Hook Memorial Award, and in 2013 the American Political Science Association gave him their first discipline-wide Distinguished Teaching Award. In 2010-2011 he served as the Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University, and twice he has received Pomona College's Wig Distinguished Teaching Award. He is a summa cum laude graduate of Amherst College, received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from UC Berkeley, and has taught at Stanford, U.C. Santa Cruz, Tufts University, and Princeton.
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House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY) announced plans for a Continuing Resolution that would reduce spending by $74 billion below President Obama's 2011 budget request for the remainder of the year. This proposal would cut over $12 million from the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH)!
As one of the largest funders of humanities programs in the US, NEH provides critical support for research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities through grants to a wide range of educational institutions, non-profit organizations, and scholars nationwide.
Write to your representative today to let members of Congress know WHY the humanities and NEH are important to you, their constituent.
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Jesse James' ex-wife, Janine Lindemulder, threatened to kill him, according to the bad boy biker's lawyer, who made the claim in their nasty custody battle.
A radical Islamic group targeted South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone for violent retaliation because they depicted the prophet Mohammed in a bear suit on the show's 200th episode.
Michael Jackson was at the center of an alleged assassination plot, in 1993. Frank Paul Jones — a man allegedly obsessed with Michael's sister, Janet Jackson — was tied to death threats made against Michael. In a letter obtained by the FBI, dated July 6, 1992, Jones wrote, "Michael (Jackson) I will personally attempt to kill, if he doesn't pay me my money."
Two and A Half Men star Jon Cryer claimed that he was on the receiving end of some death threats, phoned to the set of his television show. Cryer alleged the person behind the death threats was his ex-wife Sarah Trigger.
After mingling with teen idol Justin Beiber at the White House Correspondents' dinner in Washington, D.C., Kim Kardashian Twittered that she had "Bieber fever." His fans delivered a swift message. "I'm getting death threats from your fans! This is unBeliebable!!!," Kim wrote on Twitter.
Chris Brown got death threats from Rihanna fans after allegedly beating her up.
Michelle "Bombshell" McGee was forced to hire security to protect herself in the wake of her affair with Sandra Bullock's husband Jesse James, after receiving a series of disturbing threats.
Halle Berry, while pregnant with Canadian model Gabriel Aubry child, was forced to hire her own security guards after receiving race hate letters mailed to her Los Angeles home. One said: "We don't want no n***er baby."
ESPN sportscaster Erin Andrews, while starring on 'Dancing with the Stars,' received threatening e-mails that were investigated by the FBI. The threats, which were sent to a television show, were violent, culminating with a direct threat to Andrews' life -- "Somebody should shoot her in the face," the e-mail read.
Celebs deal with many pressures that come with fame, including death threats and other violent situations.


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Even if I-502 passes, pot use could cost your job
Mark Mulligan / Herald file 2012
Leftover marijuana on a scale at the Medical Marijuana Patients Network in Mukilteo in September. Members of the co-op must provide ID, proof of state residency and authorization from a physician during each visit. While medical marijuana is legal, there is no legal protection in workplaces for those who use it.
A state Supreme Court ruling last year said that Washington's existing medical marijuana law doesn't prevent an employer from firing an employee for a positive drug test.
Backers of Initiative 502, which would legalize purchase, possession and use of an ounce or less of marijuana by anyone 21 years or older, say there's nothing in this initiative that would protect workers from being fired for marijuana use, even if it's used off-site.
"The state Supreme Court upheld the right of employers to fire people for using marijuana, even if they are legal marijuana patients under state law," said Alison Holcomb, a spokeswoman for the group that is backing the marijuana legalization effort.
"You are committing a violation of federal law," she said. "Until marijuana is legal under federal law, that will always provide employers a valid reason for firing someone."
Initiative 502 would not change in any way the right of Washington state employers to refuse employment or to fire someone who tests positive for marijuana, Holcomb said.
Many local employers, including The Everett Clinic, have strict rules against being impaired at work, whether it's from alcohol or drugs.
"Alcohol is legal, but if an employee or physician was under the influence at work, they would face termination," said April Zepeda, a clinic spokeswoman. "So whether marijuana is legalized or not, it doesn't change our policy."
Jennifer Howard, vice president of administrative services at Everett Community College, said that in the nearly five years since she's had her job, no employee has raised the issue about use of medical marijuana.
The college has a drug-free campus policy, as well as protocols for how to handle any employee who appears to be impaired at work. This includes immediate screenings for drugs or alcohol when accidents occur that threaten safety.
"If it impacts your ability to perform your job, we have to talk to you about job performance and whether it would be safe to be on our campus," she said.
That won't change if the initiative passes, Howard said. "The impairment is what we'd be dealing with, not what caused the impairment."
One difference between alcohol and marijuana is how long the substances are detectable in a person's system.
In Initiative 502, the cutoff for marijuana impairment is set by the amount of its active ingredient, THC, is in the blood. Typically, THC drops below the legal impairment level in a matter of hours, Holcomb said.
Meanwhile, the inactive metabolite can remain in fat cells and show up in drug tests for days, or perhaps even weeks later in heavy users, she said.
"Right now, employers aren't distinguishing between the two," Holcomb said.
"Hopefully, we can have a conversation about impairment versus use," she said, such as use away from work on a Saturday night, which shouldn't affect job performance on Monday.
The use of marijuana use for treatment of medical conditions first became legal in Washington following passage of an initiative in 1998. It allows doctors, osteopaths and naturopaths to authorize the use of marijuana for terminal or debilitating conditions, including cancer, glaucoma and severe pain.
Last year's state Supreme Court ruling on medical marijuana involved a woman with a history of debilitating migraine headaches, including chronic pain, nausea, blurred vision and sensitivity to light. When traditional prescriptions medications did not provide relief, she obtained an authorization for marijuana from a physician.
The woman, who was not identified in the lawsuit, said that she only used marijuana at home.
When she was offered a job as a customer service representative for a Bremerton telemarketing company, she was informed that only employees with a negative drug test would be hired.
The woman offered to provide the company with a copy of the medical authorization she had received to use marijuana.
About a week after she was hired, the company was notified that she had tested positive for marijuana and she was fired.
The Washington court ruling clearly states that there's nothing in state law that requires accommodation of medical marijuana in places of employment, said Stephen Teller, a Seattle attorney who specializes in workplace litigation.
Yet Teller said he was bothered by some of the facts of the case.
"They knew she was going to use marijuana off site from time to time, then fired her for doing something she said she was going to do," he said.
"It's a telemarketing position. It's not a Homeland Security job, or an airplane pilot ... not even a construction job where the possibility of injury is high. It's sitting at a desk having to pay attention and provide reasonably good customer service."
The court's ruling came despite the Legislature's 2007 amendment to the medical marijuana law. Teller said he feels it was meant to clarify that while no on-the-job use of marijuana was permitted, under the law, off-site use could be required as a disability accommodation.
However, the court ruling found that neither the original law nor the amendment requires employers to accommodate an employee's use of medical marijuana.
"I think the state Supreme Court got it wrong," Teller said.
Teller said his advice to any employee asking about medical marijuana use would be: "You only want to do that if you're in the right job, or if you're willing to take the risk of losing your job."
Matt Carvalho is a Seattle attorney who helped write a friend-of-the-court brief in the medical marijuana case, asserting that the employee's termination violated the rights of patients to use marijuana.
Carvalho said he doesn't think the state Supreme Court would change its reasoning on the issue, even if voters approve this year's marijuana legalization initiative.
The court seems to be saying that if the Legislature wants to protect employees using medical marijuana, they would have to take explicit action to do so, he said.
"The thing to remember is it still remains criminalized under federal law," Carvalho said.
It might seem unfair for an employee who had informed her employer that she used marijuana for a medical condition to be fired for a positive drug test, he said. But the court didn't base its ruling on that issue.
If this year's marijuana initiative passes, "employees shouldn't expect that it would change their rights ... even if they're legally using marijuana," he said.
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First Known Use: before 12th century
noun, often attributive \ˈhand\
: the body part at the end of your arm that includes your fingers and thumb
—used in some phrases to refer to a person
hands : power, possession, or control
Full Definition of HAND
a (1) : the terminal part of the vertebrate forelimb when modified (as in humans) as a grasping organ (2) : the forelimb segment (as the terminal section of a bird's wing) of a vertebrate higher than the fishes that corresponds to the hand irrespective of its form or functional specializationb : a part serving the function of or resembling a hand: as (1) : the hind foot of an ape (2) : the chela of a crustaceanc : something resembling a hand: as (1) : an indicator or pointer on a dial <the hands of a clock> (2) : index 5 (3) : a cluster of bananas developed from a single flower group (4) : a branched rootstock of ginger (5) : a bunch of large leaves (as of tobacco) tied together usually with another leaf
a : personal possession —usually used in plural <the documents fell into the hands of the enemy>b : control, supervision —usually used in plural <left the matter in her hands>
: a pledge especially of betrothal or bestowal in marriage
a : style of penmanship : handwriting <wrote in a fancy hand>b : signature
: a unit of measure equal to 4 inches (10.2 centimeters) used especially for the height of horses
a : assistance or aid especially involving physical effort <lend a hand>b : participation, interest <had no hand in the decision>c : a round of applause
a (1) : a player in a card game or board game (2) : the cards or pieces held by a playerb : a single round in a gamec : the force or solidity of one's position (as in negotiations) <trying to strengthen their hand>
a : a person who performs or executes a particular work <two portraits by the same hand>b (1) : a person employed at manual labor or general tasks <a ranch hand> (2) : worker, employee <employed over a hundred hands>c : a member of a ship's crew <all hands on deck>d : a person skilled in a particular action or pursuite : a specialist or veteran in a usually designated activity or region <a China hand>
a : handiwork, doingsb : style of execution : workmanship <the hand of a master>c : the feel of or tactile reaction to something (as silk or leather)
: a punch made with a specified hand <knocked him out with a good right hand>
— at hand
: near in time or place : within reach <use whatever ingredients are at hand>
: currently receiving or deserving attention <the business at hand>
— at the hands of also at the hand of
: by or through the action of
— by hand
: with the hands or a hand-worked implement (as a tool or pen) rather than with a machine
: from one individual directly to another <deliver the document by hand>
— in hand
: in one's possession or control <had matters well in hand> <with money in hand>
: in preparation
: under consideration
— on all hands or on every hand
— on hand
— on one's hands
: in one's possession or care <too much time on my hands>
— out of hand
: without delay or deliberation; also : in a summary or peremptory manner <rejected the plan out of hand>
: done with : finished
: out of control
: with the hands <fruit eaten out of hand>
— to hand
: into possession <the letter … has come to hand — George Washington>
: within reach
See hand defined for kids
Examples of HAND
- These gloves will keep your hands warm.
- She put her hands over her eyes.
- He sat quietly with his hands folded in his lap.
- Do you need a hand?
Origin of HAND
Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German hant hand
Other Anatomy Terms
Rhymes with HAND
Definition of HAND
: with the hands rather than by machine
First Known Use of HAND
before 12th century
: to give (something) to someone using your hands
Full Definition of HAND
transitive verb
: to lead, guide, or assist with the hand <hand a lady into a bus>
a : to give, pass, or transmit with the hand <hand a letter to her>b : to present or provide with <handed him a surprise>
— hand it to
: to give credit to : concede the excellence of
Examples of HAND
- <was happy to hand her grandmother's cookie recipes to the parish ladies to put in their cookbook>
- <the clerk handed her the receipt>
First Known Use of HAND
15th century
biographical name \ˈhand\
Definition of HAND
(Billings) Learned 1872–1961 Am. jurist
noun , often attrib \ˈhand\ (Medical Dictionary)
Medical Definition of HAND
a (1) : the terminal part of the vertebrate forelimb when modified (as in humans) as a grasping organ (2) : the forelimb segment (as the terminal section of a bird's wing) of a vertebrate higher than the fishes that corresponds to the hand irrespective of its form or functional specialization b : a part serving the function of or resembling a hand; especially : the hind foot of an ape c : something resembling a hand; especially : an indicator or pointer on a dial
: a unit of measure equal to 4 inches or 10.2 centimeters used especially for the height of horses
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Instructions for sky map: To use this map, cut it out and attach it to a stiff backing. Hold it over your head and line up the compass points on the map's horizon to the actual direction you're facing. East and West on this map are not backward. When you hold this map over your head, East and West will be in their proper positions. Attach a piece of red cloth or paper over the lens of a small flashlight so you don't lose your night vision when you look at this map in red light.
Not only is the air clear and we see the brightest stars and constellations of the year, this month you will also see the planet Jupiter high and bright as evening commences.
So many times I hear, "I'm going to wait until warmer weather to stargaze." or "I'll get that holiday telescope out in April." This is a big mistake. You're losing a golden opportunity to get to know the universe above you.
The biggest problem, with star watching in the spring and summer is that you have to stay up late. By mid-March with daylight saving time, it's not dark enough until after 9 p.m.
This time of year, however, you're good to go for stargazing as early as 6 to 6:30 p.m.
The planet Jupiter is still holding court in the high eastern sky during the evening. It's the brightest starlike object anywhere in the nighttime. Through even a small telescope you can see up to four of Jupiter's largest moons that resemble tiny little stars on either side of the disk of the planet. On the planet itself you should be able to see at least some of the cloud bands that stripe the largest planet of our solar system.
Right now Jupiter is among what I call Orion's gang of great winter constellations in the southeast sky that reach their highest point by about 9 p.m. The constellations surrounding Orion are Gemini the Twins; Canis Major and Minor, the big and little dogs respectively; Auriga, the retired chariot driver; and Taurus the Bull, with the bright Pleiades star cluster, also known as the "Seven Little Sisters".
In the northern skies look for the Big Dipper, standing up on its handle, and the giant upside down W that outlines the throne of the constellation Cassiopeia.
You can see those constellations and a few others every night in the north as they make a tight circle around Polaris, the stationary North Star. Polaris is halfway from the northern horizon to the overhead zenith, and every celestial object in the entire sky appears to revolve around it every 24 hours.
Circumpolar constellations like the Big Bear and Cassiopeia are close enough to Polaris that it allows them to always be above the horizon.
Mike Lynch is an astronomer and professional broadcast meteorologist for WCCO Radio in Minneapolis and is author of "Stars, a Month by Month Tour of the Constellations." Check his website, www.lynchandthestars.com.
The Everett Astronomical Society: www.everettastro.org/.
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Southwest did not play the perfect soccer match in its second-round playoff game against Princeton on Saturday.
However, what the defending state champion Stallions did do was put forth a better effort than they did in their playoff opener.
And as a result, Southwest overcame several missed chances by getting goals by three different players en route to a 3-0 victory over Princeton, a win that moved the Stallions into the East Regional semifinals of the NCHSAA 1-A playoffs.
Southwest (10-8-2), the top seed from the Coastal Plains Conference, will play league rival Dixon on Wednesday. Dixon defeated Franklin Academy 1-0 on Saturday.
Princeton (14-5-1) was the top seed from the Carolina Conference.
"Our effort was certainly there tonight, particularly in the second half," Southwest coach John Sweeney said.
Southwest was coming off a 3-1 win over
"We definitely got the message," said junior Allison Blake, who scored one of the Stallions' three goals. "The next practice, Sweeney did not let anything go easy. We definitely had to come out and work. We are capable of making it all the way. So we need to prove it."
Sophomore Camry Brault agreed.
"I'm super happy with the way we played," she said. "I think we can definitely make it to states."
Brault gave the Stallions a 1-0 lead just 6:41 into the match when she scored on a header following a crossing pass from Kimberly Carroll.
The play started when Faeth Wigfall threw the ball into Taylor Marley toward the left sideline. Marley, with her back toward the goal, kicked the ball across her body down to the right side. Carroll received the ball, dribbled to the right corner and passed it to the middle to an open Brault.
"I saw Kim cross it and my first instinct was to head the ball," Brault said. "It went in and I was just really shocking to me. I had never got a goal with my head. I was so excited."
Sweeney was impressed.
"You have a forward making a run to exactly where she's supposed to be and Kim is one of the best servers I think in our area," he said. "You had a terrific job by Taylor. When everybody does their job, you can make it look spectacular."
Blake then gave the Stallions a 2-0 lead with 4:47 left in the first half on an unassisted goal. Wigfall delivered a pass forward that appeared to have skipped under Blake's feet and seemed headed out of play.
Players from both teams stopped as the ball rolled, but at the last second it stayed in play. Blake then dribbled it for about 25 yards and scored 1-on-1 with the goalkeeper.
"I was looking down the line and I thought the ball was going out and then I was like, 'Oh, well maybe not,'" Blake said. "So I just went to it. I thought the ref was going to blow the whistle (for offsides), but he didn't."
Carroll completed the scoring for Southwest just 7:28 into the second half after she played a throughball from Amanda McCurry and dribbled 35 yards before shooting.
The game was won for Southwest, although the Stallions could have made the score worse if not for hitting the crossbar twice and being called offsides eight times.
"We know we are capable of scoring goals and it was really frustrating because we had so many opportunities and we did not get most of them in," Brault said.
Princeton tried to negate Southwest's speed up top by using an offsides trap.
"They ran the offsides trap very effectively against us," Sweeney said. "When we played the ball to our forwards quickly with a bit of touch, we were able to (break it). You get caught in the offsides trap when your midfielders hold the ball too long and you get nothing if you bang balls to the forwards without any touch."
When Southwest was not offside, the Stallions actually managed to break the Bulldogs' trap with ease.
"In the beginning of the game we got caught over and over with the offsides trap," Blake said. "So we tried to figure that if we stayed on the line, it was not going to work."
Brault said her team's gameplan against the trap set up the goals.
"Coach told us to step on our half of the field all the time and so we knew we just had to get back," Brault said. "That's what made us able to get on the field and score."
And now the Stallions are hoping to score enough goals Wednesday when they battle Dixon, which lost to Southwest twice this season.
"Obviously any team that we see at this point in the playoffs is going to be a quality team," Sweeney said. "I'm happy to see an Onslow County team get through, but I'm not thrilled about playing them for a third time. "They're a terrific team and they've given us fits."
Princeton 0 0— 0
Southwest 2 1— 3
GOALS—S: Brault, Blake, Carroll. ASSISTS—S: Carroll. IN GOAL—P: Hill (11 saves). S: Ware (1 save), Dugan (1 save). SHOTS ON GOAL—P 2, S 17. CORNER KICKS—P 0, S 8. RECORDS—P: 14-5-1, season complete. S: 10-8-2, hosts Dixon on Wednesday in regional semifinal, time TBA.


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|In game two the score remained deadlocked at zero until junior second baseman Stephanie Brandt hit a two out solo home run in the top of the 10th inning to give the Falcon's a 1-0 lead. Moving to the bottom of the frame USC-Aiken loaded the bases with two outs and got a single to center field plating two runs securing the sweep. "Our team played very inspired all day long says Bradley. We battled and battled no one ever gave up and again we put ourselves in a position to win the ball game. Early in the season it's about competing and getting better and I am pleased we are doing both of those things."
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puffyusaf#2 wrote:JSM wrote:Found it a little surprising Kobe's been mentoring him for 4 years and they were able to keep that on the down low.
Im not Kobe has mentioned many times he mentors guys around the league. It is just the sports media would have to want to give him any sort of credit to condsider it a story. Kobe being a villian sells and they milk it for all its worth. It also helps that Kobe is pretty dang private about his off time.
Watch this season will be different. Kobe will be the doting old Grandpa of the league. He'll be laughed at for his silly comments and he'll be asked a lot about what's next.
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Absolutely devastating! That gorgeous course is destroyed! Thanks for the pics Jeremy, but it just breaks my heart. Thank the Good Lord no one was killed in B-Burg, God knows they've suffered enough over the years with the weather.
Ironic that the worst mid round weather I've ever got caught in was with my son and wife, on teepad #4 on this course. I had to run back to the car, the weekend before L M memorial 07 in quarter inch hail.
Everyone will miss the course, but a redesign could be nice. We can reclaim some of the land they took & never used. There were some great holes back there! Some of the tees probable still exist?
It's Gone!! Brandy is absolutely Gone! I remember the course before the water company was put in and thought it was terrible then to rearrange the course, but now we don't even have a course to rearrange.
Wow. Mother nature is a powerful force.
Glad no one was hurt.
I read this morning that in fact there was a tornado that came through Meade Olin(Courier Journal-Feb. 7). They mentioned the building in your pics. I heard about the train on the news on Feb. 6. So you were right Jeremy, stupid meteorologist !!!! When we talked last night I would have never imagined this much distruction.
At least whomever poured the teepads and put the baskets in made them to withstand a tornado. That is all that seems to have made it.
Yeah...each basket has about 250 pounds of concrete.
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how many times has Meade-Olin been redesigned?
Only once. This will be the second. We had been planning on putting in some alternate pin placements in the near future. I have faith it will still be a SWEET course when it's all said and done.
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Southwest's third victory over Richlands this season was perhaps the most difficult.
Still, the Stallions once again held off the Wildcats, this time for a 53-49 decision Friday night to advance to the championship game of the Onslow County Classic boys' basketball tournament at Jacksonville High.
Southwest (8-1) will play Northside (9-0) in the tournament final tonight. The Stallions' only loss this season came to the Monarchs, who beat Swansboro in the other semifinal Friday.
"I am very excited with the way we have been playing," Southwest coach Tommy Barnes said. "We have played two good teams and I am excited to be in the final. The kids are, too."
And the Stallions are happy to get another shot at Northside, which lost to Lejeune in the tournament final last year. Southwest won the Onslow County Classic in 2010.
"We wanted to play Northside because they beat us the last time," Southwest junior guard Jeffrey Williams said.
Richlands (4-5) was hoping for a spot in the tournament final, but the Wildcats instead will have to play for third place. Richlands will play East Central 2-A Conference foe Swansboro (5-6) today at 6 p.m. in the third-place game.
"I'm so disappointed because we could have won," Richlands first-year coach Glenn Kellum said. "We tried our best, but we came up four points short. You have to give credit to Southwest."
Williams led the Stallions with 17 points. He was complemented by 12 points from freshman Jonathan Williams.
Senior Tyree Best led Richlands with 21 points and 12 rebounds while teammate Kadarius McQueen added 12 points.
Best scored 14 points in the second half to help the Wildcats get to within 35-34 late in the third quarter after the Stallions led 28-17 at halftime.
"Once we got him the ball, he was almost unstoppable inside," Kellum said of Best. "He just works so hard."
However, the Stallions countered Best's effort by scoring several points on transition, something Southwest does well. After Richlands close the deficit to 35-34 in the third quarter with a 6-0 run, Southwest followed with a 6-0 run to extend its lead back up to 41-34.
The Stallions also had a 6-1 spurt in the fourth quarter that gave them a 49-41 lead. Each of the Stallions' runs came because they pick up the pace by forcing turnovers.
"We got a big lead and then we got relaxed and stopped playing defense," Barnes said. "Then we got back into it and picked it up and got some transition points. Our defense was the big thing."
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Southwest 8 20 13 12 — 53
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Walker 4, Jo. Williams 12, Pouncey 7, Jef. Williams 17, Jordan 3, Taylor 3, Wohlever 7. Totals— 18-49 16-32 53.
Best 21, Cottle 4, McQueen 12, Thomas 2, Thompson 8, Harrington 2. Totals— 20-56 9-15 49.
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With the temperatures hovering at around 10 degrees above normal and spiking to the mid and upper 70s this weekend, residents in Onslow County are making plans to get out and do things that they wouldn't usually do this time of year.
"I'm going to go play golf," said Robin Edley, of Hubert, noting that golf is typically not a regular activity for her during this time of year. "It's usually too cold or too rainy."
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"I don't think (the warm weather) will stay forever, but I wish it would," Irving said.
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He said the record high for the area on Wednesday was 75, which was set back in 1965.
"I'm sure the temperature will probably approach record levels this weekend," he said.
Cole said the warmer weather will be hanging around for a little while with temperatures in the 70s Saturday through Monday, and sinking back into the mid-60s on Tuesday, which is still 10 degrees over the normal high for this time of year.
"We have a semi-permanent ridge that is going to keep the warm weather going for a while," he said.
Cole explained that a digging trough along the west coast is why residents on the east coast will see the ridge here.
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The best chance for rain is today, when there is a 20-percent chance, he said.
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