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Practice scrimmages have been rare because fewer than ten people usually show up, and in games, Rogers said, only three or four Crimson players are capable of scoring consistently. "We don't have a lot of height or speed, but we hustle a lot," substitute forward Jim Kinney said...
...height of the Watergate scandal, when Americans were appalled to learn that Richard Nixon had secretly taped conversations in the Oval Office, his defenders liked to argue that Lyndon Johnson and John Kennedy had also taped at least a few White House talks. There were even old rumors that Franklin D. Roosevelt had occasionally asked a stenographer to eavesdrop on meetings...
Kissebah bases his observation on a six-year study of 52 women, 25 of them fat on top, 18 with lower-body obesity, plus a control group of nine women of normal weight. All were carefully matched for height, age and, in the case of the obese women, weight. All, says Kissebah, were "apparently healthy females whose doctors told them that they didn't have diabetes...
...most persuasive piece of evidence, however, is Pham himself. Unlike Be or Thanh, Pham is neither wild nor demonstrative. His hair, cut short and jagged around the wound, looks like a washed kitten's. His height is average for a Vietnamese 15-year-old?about 5 ft. 2 in. His build is average. His face is mouth-open flat, without expression, except for the eyes, so brown as to seem black, which cannot exactly be said to have expression either. They are their own depth, the vessels of what they have seen. It is what they have seen that makes...
Experience may help somewhat, but head coach Carole Kleinfelder has pointed out all season that the Crimson has a serious height deficiency. The team didn't get taller in Canada...