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...before. “They absolutely got after it,” he says. “I could barely keep up with them.” After training with the pros, the senior will begin the 2008 campaign weighing in at around 10 pounds lighter than he did at the end of last season. What’s more, he’s back at full strength after suffering a stress fracture in his rib cage early on in 2007. A cortisone shot in late July allowed Haviland to finish his summer in the Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League...
...somewhat erratic tone.“The form is artificial and comic, but theacting is really modern,” Sachs said.Cooper was also pleased at Sachs’ decisionto portray the character of Harryrealistically. “In the beginning we weregiven the idea to give this a lighter feelthan where we could have gone, but atthe same time to lay the moments with asense of reality,” he said.Also critical to Cooper’s performancewere the lengthy discussions he and thedirector had before filming began. “Thiswas one of those rare opportunities whereIra...
...Senator Charles E. Grassley, the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, has made a point of criticizing universities for maintaining ample endowment funds at the cost of financial aid, most recently requesting financial data from Harvard and 135 other institutions in January.The parents weekend event had its lighter moments, with Faust and Pilbeam drawing applause after a question about gender-based styles of leadership.“I worry about essentializing female traits—I mean I don’t think Margaret Thatcher worried a lot about being too masculine,” she said to laughter...
...voted to strip the two states of their delegates if they decided to move their primaries earlier than Feb. 5. (The Republicans, for their part, opted for a lighter punishment, vowing to take away half of each state's G.O.P. delegates.) But the states moved their primaries ahead anyway...
...cape - and they've got only 32 franchises to worry about. The tricolor flag has been done to death. When you get to the point that Luxembourg and the Netherlands are both a horizontal red, white and blue, with the only difference being that Luxembourg's blue is lighter - a Pantone 299c pigment to be precise - you know you're running out of ideas. The Kosovars, being mostly Albanians whose desire is less for independence as much as to be part of a greater Albanian entity, wanted their flag to be double-headed black eagles on a red flag...