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...they may well win the Ivy League title. Yale's passing game may not be awesome, however, and the Yale crowd applauded when quarterback Chuck Sizemore threw his first pass against U Conn late in the second quarter. He ended up 5 for 11, a statistic that is not apt to strike fear in the hearts of opposing defensive backs...
...kids get handed cards, and the cards say, "Miss Ames, Room 201, is your teacher," and with that their fates are set. Teacher is either hard or she's easy; pretty, and nice; or she's too strict, in which case a kid consoles himself with finding her an apt nickname, like Old Hickorystickbitch or The Bosom Lady. In any case, kids have to take what they...
...England, but it is a cautious improvement over the days when Jews were untouchable and Joseph Kennedy Jr. became the first Catholic ever to make a club. It is unlikely that Harvard blacks will fall over each other trying to join a club, so the percentages are not apt to change...
Confidence operators and petty thieves traditionally prey on dormitory dwellers. The fall's bumper-crop of returning students is a god-send to rip-off artists. The situation is most dangerous in freshman dorms, where residents are apt to leave their doors open as they journey to communal bathrooms...
...scrub brush would grow. "We honestly don't know what is going to happen if the forest is cut down," admits the agrarian-reform program's Jorge Pankov. "But when your belly is so empty that you have to steal to fill it, you're less apt to worry about altering virgin environment...