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...bigger coup that year was the donation of a valuable collection of 3,000 Jewish books and manuscripts that were previously owned by a European book collector and had been purchased wholesale after the war by a graduate of the College. The donated collection allowed Metcalf to boast that "the College Library now has one of the outstanding Hebrew collections in the United States...
...they insist that however unlikely the prospect of a major armored war, they wouldn't want to fight one with outmoded howitzers. So they've put the Crusader on a diet and cut the original buy of 1,138 systems down to 480, for $11 billion. Army generals boast they have turned the program around "nearly on a dime" and that the gun will be ideal for everything "from small-scale contingencies to full combat." But it will still require huge cargo planes to get to war quickly. They may be able to fly a little farther with the lighter...
Presidential inaugurations, like high school proms, boast evocative themes, a tradition dating back to Eisenhower's 1953 "Crusade in America." George W. Bush has selected "Celebrating America's Spirit Together" for his Jan. 20 blowout. How likely is it that partisan foes will join forces over the next four years? Here, a look at how some other terms lived up to their Inaugural promise...
Lividoti says the current system isn't ideal but has one major advantage: It means vo-tech courses attract many students. The vo-tech department can boast that more than half of CRLS' students take its courses, even though few of them are there to learn a trade for career purposes...
More than a year after celebrating a record breaking eight-year capital campaign, Tiedemann and the University Development Office (UDO) he represents continue fundraising efforts and boast a 34 percent increase over last year in its University-wide fundraising total over the past five months...