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...They] really hurt us in the first half, and it really put us in a hole,” Amaker said. “We dug and scrapped and clawed to try to make it interesting and competitive in the second 20 minutes, and I thought we did that. But we didn’t have enough to get over the hump...
...House in 1984. “My time here has been terrific. I don’t want to leave, but my health doesn’t permit me to stay and be fair to everybody,” Coveney said. “There’s a hole in my heart because Lowell House isn’t a part of my life the way it was.” Throughout his time at Harvard, Coveney was responsible for overseeing the maintenance of the House and monitoring safety. Eck also spoke of Coveney’s involvement...
Through their sterling record of incompetence and tactlessness, the UC has dug itself a hole of which it may not ever be possible to get out. By indulging the airy-fairy promises of the current UC representatives, we only grant next year’s series of blunders our preemptive approval...
...because there are jobs in Riau. The forests and peatlands of the area are being transformed into plantations, and workers are being paid to plant tens of thousands of young oil-palm trees in fields stripped bare of their native vegetation by burning. As Suranto stoops and digs one hole after another amid the blackened stumps of an old tropical forest, he looks like a camp follower picking through the detritus of a still-smoldering battlefield...
...either Iran's failure to fully comply with U.N. nuclear weapons inspectors or the drumbeat of war coming from some corners in Washington. But Iran, which has had diplomatic relations with the Holy See for 53 years, may be trying to line up Benedict as an ace in the hole for staving off a potential attack in the coming months. "The Vatican seems to be part of their strategy," a senior Western diplomat in Rome said of the Iranian leadership. "They'll have an idea of when the 11th hour is coming. And they know an intervention of the Vatican...