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Although they have ruled out walking on water, some Harvard officials have been considering even more farfetched proposals to span the gap between the river’s shores...
...Quakers tried to regroup, but their efforts to penetrate the Crimson defense did not pan out. Penn managed to close the gap to one, 6-5—the closest the game would be—but four Quaker turnovers turned the momentum in Harvard’s favor as the Crimson cruised to a 24-10 lead...
...Unemployment will probably stay where it is until late in the year. When a recovery is just starting up, companies will merely work their existing employees harder while it takes hold,? Faucher says. ?They don?t start hiring back right away - there?s always a gap there...
...based in Washington, shows that 60% of blacks support vouchers, but almost all prominent Democrats are staunchly opposed to them. They aren't even willing to find out whether giving black kids in lousy public schools the chance to attend private or parochial institutions could help close the academic gap between black and white students, the most urgent racial problem we're facing. The hostility to vouchers is usually phrased in sanctimonious rhetoric about preserving the public school system--often mouthed by Democrats, including Jackson, who sent their children to private schools...
...With one prominent exception. On the amazon.com page devoted to the single, a ringing negative comes from a correspondent who ID's himself as "Elvis Presley's Gap-friendly Ghost." And this King is pissed. "As I return from the grave," he writes, "I hunger for a new approach to my music, but seriously, this is going a bit far." He adds, with sepulchral sarcasm, "Please, drown out my vocals and produce a video that blasphemizes my ?Jailhouse Rock' dance sequence. No, I'm begging you. Please, make me into a joke as you fill your pockets. I'd really...