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...Summers said the scrutiny and media attention could motivate colleges to increase endowment spending, even absent any new laws...
...players in Europe certainly could do without it. Most complain bitterly about CAN's mid-season schedule, which they say seriously disrupts their planning. (European and Latin American continental tournaments are held during the European off-season in the Northern Hemisphere's summer.) Not only are their African stars absent for nearly a month, they also frequently return injured or exhausted - either from play, or from the CAN's unrivaled nocturnal festivities...
...looked more human and less calculating than the candidate we'd seen up until then. On election night, she commanded the stage. We saw her husband for only a brief embrace, and the familiar faces from the previous administration that had flanked her in Iowa were absent...
...while the first trial garnered much attention—including regular coverage from outlets including CourtTV and The New York Times—media coverage during the recent second trial was conspicuously absent. Even Pring-Wilson’s name recognition among members of the Harvard community—and even former professors and administrators around at the time—has faded substantially, according to more than a dozen interviews conducted by The Crimson over the past several weeks...
...wish. Back then there was an overabundance of satellite dishes - these big metal pans - for sale at nearly every shop. Today commerce has slowed to a crawl. The traffic now is a bit more orderly, but the number of horse-drawn carts has increased. Fancy cars are all but absent. And everyone is on edge - get too close and you might be a victim of the car bomb in front of you. And 2.2 million Iraqi civilians have fled their homes and are living as refugees, one of the largest mass migrations in recent human history. Now the city...