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...ROLL YOUR OWN Choose suitcases with wheels and several handles. You'll still have to carry your luggage from time to time, but wheels will lighten the load, and having several handles will make bags easier to grasp...
After losing to Minnesota in the NCAA championship game last season by a score of 6-2, the Harvard women’s hockey team had to go home defeated, knowing it not only lost grasp of the national championship for the second year in a row, but also that two of its strongest leaders—Angela Ruggiero ’02-’04 and Lauren McAuliffe ’04—would never return for another title...
Moreover, comparison companies--those that failed to make a leap or, if they did, failed to sustain it--often tried to make themselves great with a big, hairy audacious merger or acquisition. It never worked. They failed to grasp the simple truth that while you can buy your way to growth, you cannot buy your way to greatness. Two big mediocrities joined together never make one great company...
Writing an essay on the spot requires having a firm grasp of English and all its grammatical rules and nuances at one’s fingertips. One group of students who are likely to have trouble with one or both of these skills is students for whom English is a second language and not spoken at home. Wealthier students are more likely to have parents who speak English at home. And they are more likely to have leisure time to study, as opposed to having to work at a part-time job after school...
...looks out on Tripoli, it is hard to grasp the potential. The city's crumbling old Italian colonial buildings are set amid billboards hailing Libya's socialist revolution and trumpeting the power of the "people's committees," Gaddafi's version of local democracy. But Libya's fans insist the possibilities are real. In the Corinthia--Libya's only luxury hotel, boasting $300-a-night rooms--Western executives crowd the lobby, rubbing shoulders with politicians and diplomats. The U.S. liaison office, the prelude to a real embassy, now operates out of bedrooms on an upper floor of the Corinthia. Two sparsely...