Word: fresno
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...Harvard women’s tennis team lost its bid for spring break perfection on Saturday in Malibu, Calif., losing to No. 8 Pepperdine. The Crimson fell to 10-6 on the season with the loss after inflating its record with consecutive victories over Fresno State and San Diego State to kick off its spring break road trip. PEPPERDINE 5, HARVARD 2 Sophomore Stephanie Schnitter and senior Melissa Anderson contributed to the Harvard cause by notching singles victories in the No. 4 and 6 spots. However, their efforts proved not to be enough to propel Harvard over the Waves. Pepperdine...
...California actually uses a system that allows the top five percent of students to be assured into one of their top four picks in a UC school,” Obi Ugwu-Oju ’09, a graduate of Edison High School in Fresno, California, said...
...University of Southern California (U.S.C.) running back Reggie Bush, one of the most thrilling players in history, has joined homecoming weekend as a favorite autumn pastime. Which highlight is No. 1? When he juked an Oregon defender while wearing one shoe? When he stopped on a dime, watched a Fresno State defender fly by and darted across the field for a 50-yd. touchdown? Perhaps his quantum leap over a UCLA cornerback, legs split high in the air la Michael Jordan, finished with a flip into the end zone like a Hollywood stuntman? Bush, downplaying his theatrics...
...Heisman Trophy, by the second widest margin ever, after a dominant year as a runner, receiver and kick returner. Bush averaged a nation-high 8.9 yds. per carry and capped off the regular season in stunning fashion, tallying 513 all-purpose yards in a 50-42 win over Fresno State and 260 rushing yards in a 66-19 romp over crosstown rival UCLA...
...Critics have accused the big growers, like those in Nassif's organization, of exaggerating worker shortages to prevent tougher enforcement of immigration laws. But Manuel Cunha, Jr., president of the Nisei Farmers League in Fresno, Calif., whose organization represents 1,000 small farmers, says this year's shortage is real, and likely to affect much more than the Central San Joaquin Valley. Winter lettuce, broccoli, and other crops could be next, then the large-scale agricultural producers in Texas and Florida, not to mention hotels, slaughterhouses and restaurants. "Businesses across the country depend on unauthorized foreign labor," Cunha says. "Congress...