Retired United States Navy admiral William H. McRaven affirms in Make Your Bed:“Remember… start each day with a task completed.”Slow progress leads to mental resiliency and personal growth.We must have our wits about us when we play the long game.It is no longer a sprint battle but a...
To declare someone deserving or undeserving is to position oneself as arbiter, to claim the right to determine another’s worth and consequently their access to life’s necessities and pleasures. The Historical Weight of Desert Throughout history, ruling classes have wielded deservingness as a ...
A year later, Fantetti was helping the Cowboys claim a share of the Western Athletic Conference championship and a berth in the Fiesta Bowl against Oklahoma. It was the program's first postseason appearance since 1968 whenLloyd Eaton'steam played in the Sugar Bowl. In '69, Eaton kicked all...
“It’s a huge honor," Ramunno toldWesternSlopeNow.comin his home state of Colorado. "It’s a team thing. I’m not much on that, as far as an individual, but I had some great friends, some great family that I was able to play with and do some things up there. I had a great...
The vast majority of conservatives, with their alleged constitutional originalism, claim to venerate the founders. But there's a problem: The signers of the Declaration of Independence and framers of the Constitution were, if not exactly creatures of the Enlightenment like Voltaire or Hume...
And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day!
The Battle of Trafalgar can claim to be one of the most known of the great human events. In Men of Honour, Adam Nicolson takes one of the greatest identifiable heroes in British history, Horatio Nelson, and examines the broader themes of heroism, violence and virtue. Trafalgar gripped the ...
But today a couple more pieces have been added to the puzzle courtesy of Making Star Wars, who claim to have fresh information on the shape of the galaxy following the explosive climax of J.J. Abrams’ The Force Awakens.First off, it seems that the battle at Starkiller Base has made ...
and the resulting disruptive influence distorted existing markets. The BBC today may claim to be independent of advertising, but the truth is that so many of its activities, evidenced by theRadio Times, have a history of doing just that, and using advertising as a weapon to strengthen its own...