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...then I visited Mumbai, India over Spring Break, and my previously myopic opinion on this issue evolved dramatically. The number of recent murders in the hub is unconscionable, and a drastic new approach must be taken to thwart future killings...
...Baron said the decision would not hurt students studying for the test because there was not yet any preparation material available from Kaplan for the scrapped version of the test. ETS, meanwhile, says changes to the test are still in the works—but a drastic overhaul is no longer in the offing. “The graduate community has again encouraged us to continue to make improvements, and we will do those improvements, but they will be done in the future, and they will be done very gradually,” Ewing said...
...Some of the changes in the script for the Loeb Ex production were necessary given the space and the cast: for example, Brutus had one servant instead of many. Some were a little more drastic. The adaptation eliminated one of the Triumvirate entirely, and cut the speech of another to a few lines. The result was that the play was more narrowly focused on Brutus and Cassius than it is in some versions, an interesting shift. But the plot would have been more compelling with a little less redundancy of scenes in the first half (in large part Shakespeare?...
...that after all these years of training to be an offensive lineman and the constant workout on his stomach, he can feel neither satiated nor hungry; he just eats because he knows he has to. In a world of dieting and exercise where being slim is sought after with drastic measures, these guys have the opposite goals in mind: to get bigger, to get stronger, and to become unsurpassable. Does society’s perfect weight affect these men striving for their own perfect weight? “Linemen develop these complexes,” Rodger says...
...most drastic change considered was stripping the UC of its responsibility for party grants, and instead delegating this authority to each House Committee (HoCo...