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...dying hours of a Friday afternoon, as shoppers, carts piled high, push toward the checkout with the determination of candidates converging on undecided voters. He stands between them and their escape to the weekend, hand outstretched. Eggs and curses: that's the welcome most such leaders could expect. But this feels different. There's a ripple of excitement by the dairy goods, a frisson by the freezers, as word spreads: Bertie is here. The people of Navan, northwest of Dublin, respond to their Taoiseach - the official title of Ireland's Prime Minister - not with fatigue or ill temper, but with...
Suddenly it wasn't only the Indians who had to deal with Smith, but also the Virginia Co. investors who funded Jamestown and were impertinent enough to expect a return. Forget it, Smith wrote his London underwriters. There was no sense digging for gold where nature had left none, he scoffed, nor would the rock-strewn James River ever guide their wind-driven square-riggers on some long-dreamed-of shortcut to China. Disenchanted investors, he concluded, were free to join him in Jamestown, where their odds of surviving were about...
...combined ERA to guide the team to victory, although Walsh may not use the Crimson’s standard weekend rotation.While the Harvard skipper normally sends out freshman Max Perlman and junior Brad Unger on Saturdays, followed by rookie Eric Eadington and junior Shawn Haviland on Sundays, Walsh expects to mix it up this weekend due to the significance of this particular series.He plans to use Eadington out of the bullpen Saturday and possibly even Sunday and then plug someone else in as a starter alongside Haviland for the second twinbill.“We?...
...short shuttle in 4.43, and a three-cone drill time of 7.20. Yet the site also lists Princeton quarterback Jeff Terrell—who will undoubtedly not get drafted—as in a similar position.“Right now I really don’t have any [expectations] I guess,” Farbotko said. “I’m kind of waiting to see what happens. I don’t expect to be drafted. My thought originally was that I was going to have to go through the free agency market...
...cedes Wang, “I don’t expect right off the bat for people to be like ‘Oh, this is what they’re experiencing.” And she was right: many leaving “Identities” were confused. “I felt like the models were Asian but I wasn’t sure what about the fashion was specifically Asian,” says Alli Chandra...