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...Meanwhile, dog shelters across the nation are reporting record intakes as housing foreclosures and job losses force people to abandon their pets. Last year, an estimated four million cats and dogs were killed in shelters for want of adoption. This year, with fewer adoptions, that figure will likely increase...
...with 37 ticks left, freshman Oliver McNally knocked the ball out of Princeton forward Kareem Maddox’s hands. But the ball bounced off McNally and out of bounds. The referees ruled that it was a change of possession, so the 35 second clock restarted, forcing Harvard to abandon its defensive game and foul.“We made a point of emphasis to get after them, get in the passing lanes,” Housman said. “We felt we should have gotten one more when Oliver fell out of bounds, that was a tough break...
...dead wife, it is not until he meets Yu that he learns about an aspect of his wife’s life that had previously eluded him. Thus, Butoh’s dancing becomes a means through which Rudi can honor the memory of his wife while abandoning his own personal inhibitions.This seamless melding of contrasting personalities and viewpoints is also manifest in the film’s varied dialogue of English, German, and Japanese. To communicate with each other, Rudi and Yu must abandon their native tongues and speak English, thereby intimating that language is no communication barrier...
...Housman takes it to Davis, big bucket, 49-48 Harvard. Every time at Princeton, Drew just gets to the bucket at abandon. He has 14 to lead the Crimson. Lin with 13. The team will live or die by this tandem...
...arms producers would also like to re-establish ties that were severed by the international embargo of Iraq before the war. British and Italian firms, meanwhile, long to kick-start contracts they had from 2003 to 2004, when an explosion of insurgent violence forced most of them to abandon the country. (See pictures of life inside a Baghdad prison...