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...proposed gov docs section would be spacious and airy with high ceilings and actual windows. More importantly, it would boast improved access, more equipment and better organization. It would make a host of valuable University resources more accessible to undergraduates...
Student bands have proliferated in the last year at Harvard, playing in local pubs and gaining publicity along the way. And many already boast a devoted fan following...
...teams do have one thing in common. Both squads boast Ivy League Rookies of the Week. Freshman Mike Gilmore and Elizabeth Proudfit received the honors for their performances against New Hampshire, Cornell and Columbia...
Score of the Olympic men's basketball finals. The boast that the games showcase amateur athletics was never more hollow than when attached to the U.S. hoop squad. The Dream Team (the N.B.A. 11 best players plus Duke's Christian Laettner) naturally gave opponents the DTs. It was a brutal, pointless spectacle, akin to the Harlem Globetrotters doing their sideshow humiliation, for fun and profit, of a flat-footed pickup team...
From the earliest primaries, the Arkansas Governor stressed his ideas for overhauling the economy, just as he attacked Bush's wan performance in that area. Bush, unable to boast about protecting prosperity, invested much of his rhetoric -- and his party's energy -- in issues that voters viewed as peripheral. Bush captured two-thirds of those who considered "family values" critical, but only 15% of the electorate fell into that category. Similarly, the G.O.P. sought to hold its conservative base by giving a large megaphone to its antiabortion faction. Bush led among those who think that abortion should be illegal under...