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...funeral parlors. In a church-run day-care centre, infants address Caucasian visitors with cries of "Abelungu!" - the Xhosa word for whites. One stop is a cookery school sponsored by city hotels, where students from Langa's poorest sections are being helped onto the first rung of the economic ladder. "Now my dreams can come [sic]," one of them says...
...It’s definitely a rivalry within the state,” sophomore attackman Jeff Cohen said. “They’re also one of the top teams in the country, and we’re trying to climb the ladder to be one of the top teams in the country as well...
Omodele-Lucien, playing lower on the ladder than usual, was the first to finish, steamrolling his opponent, 6-2, 6-2, at the No. 4 spot...
...current junior, the Bantams’ Hathway will most likely be Gemmell’s top competitor next year barring any upstarts in the freshman class. Hathway, ranked 26th in the preseason rankings, worked her way up the ladder, cementing her spot as the No. 1 for Trinity and giving Gemmell a fight in the championship game. The battle went to five games with the Harvard freshman emerging as the winner of the 2010 Ramsay...
...answers are interrelated. Some officers seem to rise magically through the ranks, immune to criticism that would trip up others. Some who watched Graf climb the command ladder assumed she had an ally somewhere that mattered. But that doesn't appear to be the case. Though she came from a family with a long Navy background, she cleared every hurdle the Navy set up for her. Top officers simply didn't pay close enough attention to what happened after that...