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Having lost three-time Captain and four-year starter Maia Forman from the setter position, the Crimson enters the season with little experience at the most important post on the court. To counteract the lack of experience, Lem will probably start this season employing the 6-2 lineup with two setters running the offense he experimented with last year...
...hard-surface court, while beach teams consist of only two usually bare-foot acrobats who charge through the sand to get to the ball, giving the game the flavor of balletic misdemeanor. The ball used on the beach is somewhat heavier than the indoor one, mainly to counteract the effects of sea breezes. The object of both games is to make the ball hit the floor -- or sand -- on the opponent's side. Both sports are played in a 30-ft. by 60-ft. playing area and use a net that is 36 ft. wide and 8 ft. high. Outdoors...
POLICYMAKERS are trying to counteract the health system's bias towards institutional care. President Bush recently proposed increasing Medicaid coverage to 130 percent of the poverty line for pregnant women and infants. And Representative Mickey Leland (D-Tx.) and Senator Bill Bradley (D-N.J.) have introduced legislation which would expand this ceiling to 185% of the poverty line...
...many departments have shown no willingness to counteract their gender imbalances. Both the Economics Department--with 24 percent women concentrators--and the History Department--with 27 percent--have a paucity of women concentrators similar to the Government Department, yet neither has recognized the situation as problematic. to the contrary, according to history department chair edward 1. keenan '57, "this doesn't strike me as a great statistical discrepancy...
Tietke says she hopes the group will be able to counteract the embarrassment some students feel when asking someone else for help. "Calling SafeStreets is a smart thing to do," Tietke says. "It's not cowardly...