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...Mountain Hawks’ sophomore quarterback Chris Lum replaced junior JB Clark in the fourth quarter during Lehigh’s game versus Princeton after Clark threw some costly interceptions early in the game. Lum will have to face the Crimson’s veteran defense in his first collegiate-level start, going head-to-head against Harvard’s pre-season All-American cornerbacks senior Derrick Barker and sophomore Matthew Hanson, as well as All-Ivy junior defensive back Collin Zych, who recorded eight tackles and a sack against Brown last week...
...next 20 minutes, Power Shift members tried to give what Treuer called a “human face to climate change...
...Polanski's attempts to appeal his arrest and extradition to the United States fail and he is forced back to Los Angeles, he could face up to four years in state prison for the initial crime he pleaded guilty to before fleeing the United States. He could also face a maximum of three additional years served consecutively if the courts decide to charge him under California state penal code 3059 for leaving the state without permission. "I think it would be very unlikely that he would get that, but that's probably what's possible," says Levenson...
...Obama Administration seems to recognize the problem. "Let's face it, we have devoted a smaller percentage of our government budget to development than almost any other advanced country, and too little of what we have spent has contributed to genuine and lasting progress," said Secretary of State Hilary Clinton in a July 15 speech at the Council on Foreign Relations. "Too much of the money has never reached its intended target but stayed here in America to pay salaries or fund overhead in contracts." Ironically perhaps, one of the best things Clinton can do is to rebuild and finally...
...Prussians also bequeathed to the world the notorious goose step, first strutted by arrogant officers in the 17th century. As Britain faced the prospect of German invasion during World War II, George Orwell wrote the following of what he had seen of the gait from footage of Nazi parades: "[The goose-step is] one of the most horrible sights in the world ... It is simply an affirmation of naked power; contained in it, quite consciously and intentionally, is the vision of a boot crashing down on a face." The iconography was made all the more powerful by its sheer scale...