Word: explains
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...little things--the miscues, the penalties, the poor on-field judgment--doesn't explain why Harvard's offense couldn't put together a single solid drive in the second half...
...measure. It is uniformly cast as a gender issue, since the overwhelming majority of cases involve female workers being harassed by male colleagues and supervisors. But when pollsters ask women whether they have ever been targets of harassment, the answers depend on how the question is phrased, which helps explain why some surveys find that 90% of women view themselves as victims and others find less than half that number...
...Crimson may have overlooked Yale as a threat to interrupt its title march, which would explain the close 1-0 contest. Yale definitely played with more intensity than Harvard...
...alone, members of Congress bounced 8,331 checks -- 581 for $1,000 or more -- giving themselves, in effect, interest-free loans. Millionaire lawmakers, said investigators, were among the worst offenders, but the habit was shared by Foley, majority leader Richard Gephardt and minority whip Newt Gingrich, which may help explain the lack of enthusiasm for an investigation among any but the most novice Congressmen. "I wrote one check for insufficient funds," said Gingrich, "and deposited funds to cover it within 48 hours." Period...
Majority leader Gephardt was at pains to explain that lawmakers had been irresponsible only with each other's money, not the Treasury's. "The public should be aware that no taxpayer funds were used to cover insufficiencies," he said. "The funds of other members of Congress were employed to that end." Meanwhile, Speaker Foley called the reporting on the story "hysterical" and observed that the vast majority of the checks were for very small amounts...