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...first three-eighths of the race, the Crimson punished their opponents heading into the midway point. After failing to achieve separation through 750 meters, Harvard had open established open water through 1,000 and coasted to the nearly nine-second lead, never allowing the Navy boat to creep back into contention...
Consider that implicit unease at whether those plans hatched for summer are really going to be the right idea, a nagging suspicion that begins to creep in as the days fly by and June becomes less of an abstract concept and more something which happens the week after next. That intensely annoying question of “what are you doing this summer?” becomes the catchall currency in social interactions, as widespread as the holy trilogy of name, hometown and SAT score were during the heady days of Freshman Week. When everyone’s talking about...
...Still those feelings [of losing the national championship] creep up right now because it’s very recent and very real,” she added...
Officeholders, even those who wish to be friendly to home educators, have difficulty understanding that the most they can hope to do is get out of the way. Many home educators would never seek vouchers because we know that the flow of government money is followed by the creep of government regulation. We want government brought back to the local level, where families can influence it, not insulated away in state capitals or Washington...
...train blasts also differed from the Basque group's traditional modus operandi in important ways: the absence of warning, which ETA usually gives; the deliberate targeting of civilians; and the sheer scale of the operation. Despite the government's professed certainty of ETA's guilt, doubts began to creep in. Then on Thursday evening, Acebes announced that in Alcala de Henares, a town about 19 miles northeast of Madrid where three of the ill-fated trains had originated and which the fourth had passed through, police found an abandoned white Renault Kangoo van containing seven copper detonators and a tape...