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...feel like Oliver Twist at the orphanage for even asking. And whenever I do, I brace myself for Mr. Bumble and Widow Corney to leap out of the lavatory and sing, "More?! Catch him! Snatch him! Hold him! Scold him! Pounce him! Trounce him! Pick him up and bounce...
...those with “demonstrated excellence in one particular endeavor.” Yet it is the rare Harvard student who is truly well-lopsided. Whenever someone inadvertently reveals to me that he is the world’s premier concert saxophonist, I brace myself for the inevitable “and.” Sure enough, he also tutors abused poodles in ASL twice a week. Braced by years as Student Body President and Literary Magazine Editor and Volleyball Team Captain, Harvard students fling themselves exuberantly into scores of extracurricular pursuits. Even someone who used to be only...
...told that my ACL and MCL were torn and that I would potentially lose my full year.”Martin, with only a walk-on backing her up, led the Crimson to a 5-1-0 start with three shutouts along the way. Kessler returned, wearing a heavy brace, in mid-November, and won her first two outings.Alternating starts for the remainder of the regular season, Martin and Kessler led Harvard to a 21-6-2 record. But playoff time meant decision time, and Stone awarded Martin the starting job for the team?...
Come August, Russians brace for trouble. This has become a habit since August 1991, when hard-liners attempted an abortive coup to squash Russia's budding democracy. It was in August 2000 that the Kursk submarine sank, and the Ostankino TV tower in Moscow caught fire. It was in August 1999 that apartment houses were bombed in Moscow, the second Chechen war started, and the political fervor it stirred helped usher Vladimir Putin to the presidency...
...poking its head up. In a startling interview with the Financial Times, John Negroponte, Deputy U.S. Secretary of State, said Qaeda is on the move in North Africa, as well as in the Sahel region, in such countries as Chad, Mali and Niger. Negroponte also said we should brace ourselves for a merger between Qaeda and the Algerian fundamentalists. I heard the same thing from a Libyan official, who said that one day in the near future Qaeda-associated groups could pose a threat to Libya's stability. Ethiopia's invasion of Somalia left a vacuum Qaeda is quickly filling...