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...hidden amid their indifferent peers, the majority of Harvard’s 41 varsity teams cull a small but faithful following whose presence on the sidelines is as consistent as their being outnumbered...
Calls for a cull don't fit with stewardship of a World Heritage Area, Whitehead says: "It's the fundamental tension. Kakadu's an area where natural values have to be maintained, but recreation is also supposed to be supported." Despite baiting and spotlighting attempts by rangers at Twin Falls, critics say Parks Australia, which last week was unwilling to comment, is not doing enough to keep the area safe. Kakadu, said N.T. Country Liberal Party Senator Nigel Scullion, "is not their personal fiefdom." It's unclear whether the Twin Falls saltie's capture would prompt a reconsideration...
...From there on out, it was a group grope,” he said. “My task as the project director was to try to cull from these discussions areas of agreement and to build the document around these areas of agreement and to try to discern what would represent a centrist, bipartisan position...
...summer of 1925, between college graduation and graduate courses at Oxford University that fall, Ted subbed for the vacationing writer of the On the Firing Line column for the Springfield Union. His job was to cull items from other papers and put a spin on them. He answered the household-hint question, "How can chewing gum be removed from a carpet?" with this: "Don't take chances, is our advice. A new package will only set you back a nickel...
...every street corner in every city offers the latest look for under $100, H&M is the fastest and cheapest source for trends. And yet it is surprisingly stealthy, based in a modest brick building in central Stockholm and run by a large group of mostly Swedish designers who cull the hippest looks from the multitude of styles emitted by TV, music videos, the street and the runway. With annual sales of about $6 billion, H&M is smaller than Gap Inc. (sales top $15 billion, and the Gap brand represents 46% of that) but bigger than its closest rival...