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...institute describes itself as a "school of matchmaking and relationship sciences," but it soon becomes clear that its teachings are far from exact. Of the 22 hours of intensive training, a good many are spent on the decidedly unscientific business of assessing and handling clients, many of whom need help far beyond the introduction. Some require sober advice about wardrobe or hygiene. Others need schooling on how not to sabotage a date with obnoxious behavior. Some matchmakers, including Clampitt, have degrees in social work or psychology. Still, she warns, "matchmaking is not therapy. You've got to be real careful...
...Advisories] notify the community about the incident that occurs, but more importantly, what community members need to do to keep themselves safe,” he said. “The information about how to keep safe is still the exact information from yesterday. We feel that the notification of a second incident is best suited right now through the press...
...while Bennett’s exact numbers appear dubious—the top fund manager at HMC received $35.1 million last fiscal year—his dissent joins those of other vocal donors who have questioned the HMC salaries...
...UConn is the exact same team from last year, the best women’s basketball team in the history of women’s college sports,” Delaney-Smith said. “They looked God-awful [Friday] night. Why? Because they lost a couple and it’s just like that little chip in the armor and it just makes you hesitate, and makes you lose just a touch of confidence and [say], ‘Maybe we’re not so great, and maybe we’re not so invincible...
...lead a 1,400-strong WMD search party last June, Kay sounded neither daunted nor doubtful. "I'm confident," he told NBC, "that we will reach the goal of understanding Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program, including where weapons are, where weapons may have been moved and the exact status of that program at the time the war commenced...