Word: establish
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Just two games after tying the school mark of Bill Mohler '88 for blocks in a game with five against Holy Cross, Ewing continued to establish himself as a dominant post presence with a record-breaking six rejections in only 19 minutes. His time was cut short by foul trouble as he collected his fifth personal while clearing out on offense with 6:33 remaining...
...album, John Mellencamp (Columbia), is no exception. These are difficult days to be John Mellencamp. Rock is on the run, youth is on the rise, and his brand of rural rock skews a little old even for the VH1 set. But Mellencamp, 47, is soldiering on, trying to re-establish his name, his image and his music. He has left Mercury Records, his label for some 20 years, and signed with Columbia. He has a new book of artwork out, Mellencamp: Paintings and Reflections (HarperCollins; $40). And he's willing to be unusually candid about almost anything he's asked...
...GODDEN, 90, exquisitely lyrical British novelist, playwright and poet; in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. Godden set much of her work in India, where she grew up. Although she wrote a total of 70 books and collections, she was best known for the 1939 novel Black Narcissus, in which nuns fight to establish a school and hospital on a Himalayan mountain. Of the 1946 film version, the prickly Godden observed, "I hate it...Everything about it was phony...
...dirty work for you. After five invites, I think either avenue of action is perfectly acceptable. If you see him or happen to converse with him first, you tell him. If he approaches one of them first, have him or her to do the deed. But establish this policy with them ASAP. The only way he could possibly be upset and justified is if you saw him and didn't say anything and then he saw one of your friends and they told him what was up in the most brutal way possible...
...getting to know him as a friend? While this may prove to be impossible given your past history, you should think about it in the way you let him down. But a large part of whether or not you become friends will depend on what you do after you establish that you are not interested in a relationship. And if you do it yourself (instead of involving your friends), you have a lot more control over what happens next...