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...particularly fortunate to have his leadership,” AUB Board of Trustees Chair Richard A. Debs said in a press release, “especially in this crucial time when the ignorance gap between East and West is so wide and the role of education is so essential to bridging that gap...
With 5:51 remaining in the game, the Crimson needed a run badly. After holding a lead that hovered around 10 for the majority of the second half, a 7-0 run by Dartmouth (4-7, 0-1) closed the gap to just four points, 76-72, on a rainbow three-pointer from Big Green sophomore guard Courtney Lewis...
Harvard fell behind early, and even after a small spurt narrowed the gap to 15-12, a 10-2 Cal run put the game away early. The Bears closed out the first half with a 37-25 lead...
...cops--outcomes that did nothing to heal the city's racial rifts. "You've got a lot of African Americans who won't give the officers a chance to change, and you have a lot of officers who won't let African Americans change. How do you bridge that gap?" asks Walter White, an African-American resident...
...Despite the soaring skyscrapers of China's eastern seaboard, much of the inland population remains undernourished?and the gap between urban rich and rural poor is yawning ever wider. Unemployment is burgeoning, and millions who are technically employed by the state haven't received a paycheck in months. Bloody labor protests have convulsed dozens of industrial towns this year. Tired of relying on lackadaisical police and ineffectual courts, normal citizens are also becoming restive. "People have no way to complain," says Shan Guangnai, a sociologist at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. "So they've started to take...