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Cheng said she and her co-captain, Ann W. Brown ’05, hope to use those savings to hire a professional choreographer. While big state schools have long been able to afford professional choreographers to put together their routine for nationals, the Crimson has only been able to afford partial choreography. The co-captainschoreograph all of the routines performed at basketball games...
With the competition scheduled for the week after spring break, the team can’t afford to take nine days off, Cheng said. Despite the intensive lead-up, the team is optimistic about their potential at this year’s nationals, which will take place April 6 to 10 in Daytona Beach, Florida...
...taxes and a host of other issues—that continue to divide the Democratic Party. Democrats shouldn’t start purging party factions or trying to enforce any doctrinal orthodoxy—a project as stupid as it would be hopeless—but neither can they afford to spend the coming years just moving “forward...
...revive what was once one of the world's wealthiest countries. As a young boy, Adeang used to watch the country's fleet of new planes roll up and down the island's runway, and its cargo ships race in and out of port. Now Nauru can only afford to pay him and his fellow ministers, including the nation's president, $A100 a fortnight. Even the minister must rely on relatives catching fish to feed him and his family. It's a sorry fall from the 1960s and '70s when phosphate exports brought the 21-sq. km republic wild riches...
Exporting products is also a way of exporting ideas; as such we should only go to war when trade has failed. Iraq has been expensive and bloody and is something that we can hardly afford to replicate in Iran, Myanmar or Cuba. Would it be too much to ask to open up to these countries and then see what this country...