Word: brought
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...college football bowl season heats up, a topic much more unpleasant than marching bands and last-second field goals threatens to overshadow the rah-rah festivities: out-of-control coaches. A recent spate of disturbing incidents has brought unwanted off-field attention to the college game...
...from testing patients for H1N1 unless they were at risk for complications, but suggested that the Harvard community forgo “the traditional handshakes and embraces that accompany graduation ceremonies” because of an uptick in the number of students presenting flu-like symptoms. Fall semester brought a significant increase in the number of students with "influenza-like illnesses" and ill students were quarantined in Stillman Infirmary, their own single bedrooms, or other unoccupied dorm rooms. UHS ordered thousands of doses of the H1N1 vaccine and College administrators prepped to respond to increasing numbers of sickened...
...even made its public rounds. Even though the "disorderly conduct" charge was quickly dropped, the controversy continued to grow, fanned by Obama's nationally televised remarks that police had "acted stupidly" in arresting the professor. Obama later acknowledged that he had erred in his choice of words and brought Gates and Crowley to the White House to discuss the incident over beers...
...from one awful decade into the next, there has been a coagulation of these extremes - a united front against the turgid ceremonies of legislative democracy, like compromise, and disdain for the politician most responsible for nudging our snarled checks and balances toward action, Barack Obama. The issue that has brought them together is opposition to the Senate's health care-reform bill, which makes some sense on the right, but none at all on the left. (See the 5 things that the House and Senate have to iron out on health care...
...Lula's rough edges but says such is the concessionary nature of making biopics. "It's a film, and cinema is about choices. You have to leave things out," Barreto tells TIME. "What was important was that I wanted to portray that conciliatory side of him - the man who brought people together, who always wanted to talk and negotiate and was never radical...