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Here’s why. The ECAC could easily abandon its travel partner scheduling. Weekend series would consist of two games at one site, a departure from the current arrangement which includes a Friday game at one school followed by a Saturday game at the other. The two-game, one-site system would alleviate the scheduling problems that Brown and Yale have because their travel partners—Harvard and Princeton, respectively—break for exams in January while they want to keep playing...
...wrote 11 novels; Hollywood filmed eight of them within three years of their publication. True, Woolrich was not consulted when screenwriters gave his plots different endings (?No Man of Her Own?), different murderers (?Black Angel?). Authors rarely were then. Shakespeare and the Bible got rewritten with the same blithe abandon...
...regeneration a possibility for Willie? Sure. This is a Christmas movie. But it's also a Terry Zwigoff film, and the auteur of such dark delights as Crumb and Ghost World is not about to abandon his obsession with dysfunction among the lower socioeconomic classes. He holds back Willie's reformation until the last possible moment...
...trying to make the most of the international attention that comes with the Peace Prize. With boundless energy radiating from her petite frame, she has been strategizing with fellow activists and giving speeches to students, urging them not to give up hope, turn their backs on religion or abandon their political activism. When she isn't barn-storming, visitors to her home in Tehran's Yoosefabad neighborhood find Ebadi following up the dozens of cases of political prisoners in her files...
...warns Matthews about how much time he has. He suggests when to move on from a line of questioning and when to abandon...