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...barracks. Next to the gray stones and tiny green bushes lazes Buddy, the company's guard dog. Buddy lies about all day on a green mat, barely moving. The joke among the soldiers is that the dog appears to do little but, if anyone tries anything, he would leap into action. That's maybe how they would like to see themselves. The lives of the Japanese soldiers here are not much more exciting than Buddy's. And if Buddy stays bored, that's good news for Japan...
...wouldn't jump into the market with a single leap just now. That would risk making a large bet at what might be the top of another sucker's rally. So go slow. Invest at regular intervals with the goal of having any cash earmarked for stocks in place by year's end. That ensures you won't jump in at just the wrong time and increases the odds of buying at rock bottom--a moment clear only in hindsight...
While we can’t help but consider Dasgupta and Gee a little foolhardy for taking a leap of monetary faith in an organization that has proven itself financially and administratively irresponsible in the past, we do believe that the council should vote to reimburse them. Dasgupta and Gee were unfairly placed in the position of having to dip into their own pocketbooks or face the embarrassment of turning away speakers, starving hungry participants and watching the summit disintegrate before their eyes. The council must take responsibility for placing its own members in such a compromised position and pursue...
Sophomore Helena Ronner was also a two-event winner, taking the triple jump at 12.35 meters and the long jump at 5.99 meters. Ronner's winning leap in the long jump was the best in the Ivies this Outdoor season...
...America. Since its reinstatement in 1976, the death penalty has been sanitized and closeted. The rope in the town square begat Old Sparky, which begat lethal injection, both administered behind tall prison walls. Bringing executions back out into the open--not closed-circuit TV but TV--is a leap most often advocated by those who want to do away with them. They believe that capital punishment would lose the support of a civilized society if people actually saw the state commit the act for which it seeks retribution. Perhaps we should have our executions broadcast as widely as the Super...