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...Masters who protested randomization and the dean of students who played foil to Lewis have left the scene. Senior tutors who steppes out of line with University Hall have been axed...
...paid off for the Tigers. After jumping out to a 42.5-point lead in the first two days of the EISL Championship, the Crimson saw its advantage fade away in a swirl of Princeton records, relays and dives. The Tigers rallied back on the last day of competition to foil Harvard’s plans for a seventh-straight title...
That's dramatically different from the liability of, say, McDonald's, in which the company can be sued if a customer anywhere is scalded by hot coffee. The church's legal structure acts as a foil to any attack on the center. And ultimately, headquarters is the Vatican--a sovereign state that is effectively immune from private legal action in the U.S. (The Vatican for its part is publicly against any payout of compensation in sexual-abuse cases.) Church officials claim that even when an archbishop is on record as being the chairman of a diocesan corporation, whether a parish...
...fish, lentils and raisin-spiked basmati rice and tender spiced mutton, smoked for three days in an underground pit. But even that tradition is evolving. "We used to wrap the meat in banana leaves," says my host, a young Omani woman. "But now in Muscat we wrap it in foil...
Apparently, real Harvard athletes don’t have the time to singlehandedly foil FBI sting operations, fly out to Kansas every other day and drop copious amounts of acid. And the opening scene—in which Greiner shows up late for a game due to a romp in the hay with Sarah Michelle, only to promptly be inserted into the lineup—probably wouldn’t go over very well with Harvard Coach Frank Sullivan or real Harvard teammates...