Word: depth
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...class of the league,” Cornell coach Jim Knowles said. “They’re as good as any team I’ve been around in the Ivy League.”And, as Knowles pointed out, the Crimson boasts tremendous depth at key positions. Senior running back Clifton Dawson is the obvious strength, but an offensive line that has cleared holes and given the quarterbacks time has been equally important. Junior quarterback Chris Pizzotti has been excellent in his three starts, just like sophomore Jeff Witt was during a brief stint. Pizzotti completed passes...
...meant to argue, expose, or discuss a particular opinion in some depth. Op-eds may not explicitly respond to pieces that have already appeared in The Crimson, but often they tackle the same subjects that recent op-eds have dealt with. In considering which op-eds to publish, in addition to originality, we also look for a strong argument, timeliness, clarity of writing, and cleverness...
...Meanwhile, the Amish in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, are sticking by their traditional rituals to the letter. And they?re having to fight off helicopters and TV trucks to do it. For them, there is no need to publicly proclaim one?s depth of grief, for even this is ritualized - during the funeral processions, each buggy hangs a number on the side; the lower the number, the closer the connection to the deceased. The mothers of the girls will wear black for a year. The schoolhouse will likely be burned down, so there won?t be a structure that, just...
...America, a Kennedy School program to identify ways to strengthen America’s civil connectedness, said that although civic involvement is thought to be greater in Britain, the program’s findings may prove otherwise. Differences in religiosity and immigration patterns have not yet been studied in depth, he said. “Certainly Britain is far more secular than the U.S.—the U.S. is an anomaly as far as developed countries are concerned in terms of our religiosity,” he said. The new initiative will also involve Zukerman Professor of Sociology Mary...
...marked difference from the current program, general education courses under the proposed system would have to present students with “a broad range of material, rather than focus in depth on a single topic or a small number of texts...