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...Dartmouth athletic department’s abrupt announcement last week that it would eliminate its swimming and diving teams at the end of this season has shocked the Dartmouth campus and college athletics nationwide...
Speaking of tournaments, the ECAC made an abrupt and dramatic shift in the location of its conference championship in June...
...cost the Japanese manufacturers an estimated $267 million in lost revenue this year. Honda and Yamaha each has had to shut down its Vietnam factory until the end of the year, and Suzuki says it will also run out of parts any day. Japanese executives are fuming, hinting the abrupt policy shift could hurt Vietnam's bid to join the World Trade Organization. After a delegation from the big three bikemakers were snubbed earlier this month by Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan?the Japanese were told Khoan was too busy to meet and talk about the issue?Honda director Tatsuhiro...
...songs like “The Post,” Van Dam highlighted the contrast between the cheerful opening and the abrupt change of mood in the second stanza. Each utterance of “Mein Herz” (“My Heart”) encompassed the emotional spectrum, from optimism to anguish. At his finest moments, he was able to take a semi-strophic song, like the opening “Gute Nacht” (“Good Night”), and turn it into a compelling narrative, making the music speak differently each time it reappeared...
...three Yale goals were an abrupt end to Harvard’s four-game shutout streak...