Word: humped
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Housman has been solid this season, averaging 12.3 points and 3.3 assists per game, but there is still one hump to get over—finding a victory against Penn or Princeton, or both...
...nonprofit institute at Georgetown, the Pope may take a less broad-brush approach to the issue by repeating his sentiment from Cologne: "He could say, 'You, like me, are concerned about terrorism' and he would like to see Islamic clerics be more up front condemning it." Once over the hump, happier topics should be easy to find. "Quite frankly," says Reese, "the Pope and the Muslims are on the same page on abortion. They [agree on] relativism and consumerism, hedonistic culture, sex and violence, Palestinian rights." Conceivably, like John Paul's first journey back to communist Poland, Benedict's simple...
...Reese isn’t ready to rest on his laurels. Despite all of the individual achievements, he still wants the one thing that no skater on the current Crimson roster has experienced—a victory in the NCAA tournament.“That’s the hump that this program needs to get over, to make the next step, to become a national powerhouse,” Reese says. “It’s something that I pride myself in as a captain, winning an NCAA game.”Though it wasn?...
...elections that we went through in '05 would have had a bigger impact on the level of violence than they have, I guess, I'd put it in those terms. I would have thought -- well, I expressed the sentiment some time ago that I thought we were over the hump in terms of violence, I think that was premature. I thought the elections would have created that environment. And it hasn't happened...
...team. “All our upperclassmen have worked since February to change the momentum,” Weiss said. “They’ve experienced winning, and then they’ve experienced losing, so they know what it takes to get over the hump and win.” The rest of the league certainly won’t be a pushover. Defending champion Cornell returns reigning Ivy League Player of the Year and 2005 All-American Elizabeth Bishop, an unstoppable force at outside hitter. Meanwhile, Princeton and Ivy League Player of the Week Lindsey Ensign...