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Though the constant jumbling of the lineup has made the task of maintaining a high level of chemistry on the line more difficult, the adversity has made for a tightly-knit group on the offense—including those who have gone down to injury as the season has progressed...
...professor of economics, he was a top financial adviser to the regime and knew the government books well. He says he would have known if money was disappearing into a black hole created by a special weapons project. Similarly, Iraqi scientists note that their community is small and tightly knit; most of them studied together and worked together. If a new, secret WMD program had started up, they argue, certain core players who held the necessary expertise would have had to be involved. Several scientists told TIME that all their cohort is accounted for; no one went underground. Iraq...
This is some of the best real estate on campus. It is beautiful, close to classrooms, and next door to the other river Houses. The area is more closely knit with the heart of the campus than is Currier House—or, for that matter, Mather House...
This year, it’s Harvard that has the closely-knit senior class that stayed on campus through the summer and led workouts, as the Big Red’s did in 2002. And it’s the Crimson that’s coming off an overtime loss in the previous ECAC title game and cameo appearance in the NCAAs—two things that happened to Cornell two years ago and motivated it last season...
There is promise, however, at the intersection between technology and social capital, where flash mobs were born. Telephones and the Internet, unlike the passive medium of television, are both used actively and could potentially knit us more closely together. Our society is in a giant period of experimentation, and we may be inventing the technological building blocks of new social connections. For example, Howard Rheingold’s Smart Mobs—organized in the same way as flash mobs, but with more serious intentions—details how these active technologies helped Philippine and Seattle protesters redeploy themselves...