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...thought. Narnia isn’t much of a leap to Hogwarts...
Byrnes, playing both receiver and running back, struggled to find holes and picked up only 39 yards on 18 carries. When Byrnes lined up at receiver, freshman Ryan Tyler—who leap-frogged senior Rodney Thomas and sophomores Williamson and Nick Carrington on the depth chart—got the carries. But Tyler was ineffective as well, gaining only 13 yards on five carries...
...Strauss CEO, explaining why the company is launching a brand to be sold in discount stores "Your middle name must be Teflon." George Mudie, British M.P., on how the country's chief statistician survived after his office made a $67 billion accounting error "We had been promised a great leap forward. What we got was an inch in the right direction." Brian Coulton, senior director at the Fitch rating agency, on Japan's new bank reform plan
These students are in the business of serious pillow fluffing as they transform ordinary Eliot dorm rooms into the lodging of champions. To make that giant leap, committee members coerce volunteer hosts into neatening up their river-view suites (such a view is required before one can even be considered as a potential bed-offerer), arrange for Harvard Student Agencies to provide sparkling clean linens, and even organize the baking of homemade cookies (oatmeal chocolate chip this year) so that the skaters can go to sleep with stomachs well-fed as well as pillows well-fluffed...
...least (across the Union, less than 50% of people surveyed think membership is beneficial). Why does everyone seem so sick and tired of the E.U. - even before getting in? In the so-called aspirant countries, some fear that E.U. entry will be a step back rather than a great leap forward. Since independence from the Soviet Union, Estonia's leaders have made the country a laboratory of the free market. In the early 1990s, Estonia slashed nearly all state subsidies, privatized virtually all state assets and unilaterally dropped all trade tariffs. As a result, the country's GDP is growing...