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...like things to be shared. Everything is democratic,” said Brownstein, who splits lead vocals with Tucker and backup with Weiss. The taut interplay between the three is the band’s greatest strength: Tucker’s massive quiver is braced by Brownstein’s sonorous shouts, while Weiss is a unrelenting rhythmic bulwark...
Leino said he has heard that a “backup entering people into the new payroll system” caused the paycheck delay and that less than 10 of his 30 student co-workers at Currier have received paychecks this school year...
...grumbling at home that the war was stalled. Pentagon officials counseled patience; in private, they say now, they felt the Taliban would soon collapse. The U.S. focused its early raids on pounding the Taliban's reserve forces; when the front-line forces called for reinforcements, they found their backup thrashed...
...Court apartment complex in southwest Portland where Battle and Lewis live, neighbors grew alarmed when the couple's son reportedly told another child that "Sept. 11 was a good thing." Residents called the fbi, and at least one agent moved in to observe, they say. The neighbors provided informal backup. "The fbi said I was not to approach them but I should listen for certain 'hot words,' like jihad," Matt Hawkey recalls. He and others routinely passed along license-plate numbers of the couple's visitors...
...Coach, I feel your pain. But your team put up 420 total yards and 35 points on a Top-15 team that hasn’t lost at home in 27 games—all with your backup quarterback—and it ought to be the other Ivy teams that are frustrated. Because Harvard has put its 2001 winning streak aside, and it looks like it’s time to start the 2002 version...