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...person editorial team put out a call for essays during the summer after their sophomore year, which they subjected to a four-round selection process. Various faculty members, including Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy John Holdren and Assistant Professor of Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, advised them on the publication process along...
This time, though, PGA player Vijay Singh teed off on Sorenstam, saying "I hope she misses the cut"--that is, gets knocked out halfway through the four-round tournament. Although Singh begged for a mulligan, insisting he was misunderstood, it was music to USA and CBS, which will be adding extra coverage to follow Sorenstam, Tiger-like, in what until then had been just another golf tournament. And Singh might be expressing the anxiety the gentlemen may feel when, come Sunday, some of them could be in the running for the First PGA Pro to Get His Butt Kicked...
...actually two vehicles--the tracked business end topped with a turret and 155-mm gun, and a resupply vehicle carrying ammo and fuel. The gun's unique liquid-cooled barrel and automatic loading system allow it to fire 10 rounds a minute up to 25 miles, overwhelming the four-round, 18-mile range of the Paladin, the howitzer it is slated to replace...
...February 1977 he turned pro and began beating his way through the welterweight thicket on a course Manager Angelo Dundee had carefully laid to the championship. It started with Luis ("the Bull") Vega at the Civic Center in Baltimore. Most boxers start in four-round preliminaries, but Leonard's debut was a six-round main event and a $40,000 payday. It was televised nationally...
there are 200-ft.-long "fast patrol boats," destroyers, fiber-glass-and-plastic-hulled minesweepers, troop-carrying Hovercraft and even a 670-ft., 14,000-ton Vickers aircraft carrier. Nor is the infantry slighted: there are mortars (51 mm or 81 mm), silencer-equipped submachine guns, four-round sniper rifles (99% accuracy at 400 meters) and a battery-powered grenade launcher. Missiles? Try an air-to-air Sky Flash or a ship-to-air Seawolf, a Rapier ("low cost" and "low weight") or a Swingfire ("long-range" and "antitank"). Once the weapons are ordered, there are British firms that will...