Word: elders
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...meeting. Watch as he tries to manipulate Deng Xiaoping in an early conclave: "Some of the protest posters and the slogans that students shout during the marches are anti-Party and anti-socialist," he says. "The spear is now pointed directly at you and the others of the elder generation." And then watch Deng, 83, nibble at the catnip: "Saying I'm the mastermind behind the scenes, are they...
Yale (4-8, 0-0) is one team that will be especially happy to see that the elder Egelhoff--who burned the Elis for five treys in a single half last year--has moved on. But Harvard still has its fair share of Bulldog-killers left on the team. Junior guard Jenn Monti has always come up big against Yale, dishing out a school-record 16 assists in a game last season, and hitting a buzzer-beating winner during her freshman year...
...from affirmative action to hate-crimes legislation and women's rights, there may be a chance to peel off enough moderate Republicans to make him the first Cabinet appointee to be bounced since 1989, when John Tower lost his chance to be Secretary of Defense for President Bush the Elder...
...Perkins, his bosses and his teachers think it's worth enduring a little friction to hear stories of students like Rosemont fourth-grader Briana Hopkins. Though her mother dropped out of college after two years and her elder brother forsook higher education for a job as a maintenance worker, Briana spent last summer taking enrichment classes at Coppin State and tells her mom how she wants to go off to college one day. Says Briana's mother JoAnn: "If going to college had been stressed earlier, it could have been totally different...
...lose it, and may step aside to allow Peres to lose it. Or the party could ditch him. Because according to the polls, while Barak loses to Sharon by a mile, Peres in some polls actually beats Sharon by a small margin. He's an elder statesman, a safe pair of hands, a solid guy seen as the man to manage the peace process...