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...gathered the ball up to let loose a shot—presumably seeking a foul. There were certainly grounds for a call: a member of the Tribe nudged Lin’s left shoulder as he went up to shoot, forcing him sprawling to the ground...
...Although we were disappointed to lose to Brown at the beginning of the year, it really gave us a good wake-up call and got us training really hard to have the specific goal of beating them, running all the way up to Sprints,” said junior and varsity two seat Anthony Locke. “That was the biggest difference from last year—being really focused on beating them all the time...
...rainforests? True, but one thing you can’t outsource is the care of your own: your family, your friends, yourself. When you fail to care for yourself, you leave that task to your friends and relatives, who, despite your protests, do worry about you. So you should call them every now and then and squeeze them in for lunch. Because if you don’t, who will? That care—the care of the little things—is necessary...
...House of Representatives 220-215 vote represented a bittersweet victory, moving sweeping health-care legislation forward at the necessary cost of the unjust Stupak Amendment. The national debate reached fever pitch and the bill seemed doomed as it stalled for months in Congress, prompting us to take up a call for legislative reconciliation despite criticism from Republicans who, hypocritically, have historically taken full advantage of the tactic. In the end, reconciliation gave what was perhaps the most sweeping legislation since the Johnson administration a place in the annals of history...
...personally have gotten a lot of complaints from students that the counselors themselves rush people through appointments. [And] there are some pretty terrible stories of people going in after hours, and the on-call psychologist coming in 45 minutes late,” the student said...