Word: loudnesses
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...reform measures in decades. For the first time, schools whose athletes don't meet a new minimum academic standard--roughly equivalent to a 50% graduation rate--stand to lose scholarships and risk harsher sanctions down the road such as being barred from lucrative post-season play. The organization fired loud warning shots, posting report cards on its website that detail which specific teams face the biggest challenges (UConn basketball and Ohio State football among them) and giving them a year to shape up or risk scholarship losses...
...songs later, frontman Steve Schiltz closed his eyes for a surprisingly delicate falsetto while “Strawberry Fields” keyboards tweeted wistfully over skittish drums; without missing a beat, he doubled over to play a loud, bluesy fuzz riff. Longwave loves to create atmosphere and plays with it this way, painstakingly assembling moods and sending them crashing into each another within songs...
...would think out loud a lot more than people in the Bush administration do,” says Sanger. “I found it very refreshing. You get used to his style, which isn’t always mild. But I would always prefer a forceful advocacy of a view as long as it was backed up by facts than the approach that you hear a lot in Washington today...
...appeared almost ordained—how else do you explain the fact that trailing in the final two minutes of Friday’s game against the Big Green, Harvard pulled its goalie, called a timeout, and scored on the ensuing faceoff? In a loud, hostile environment, and as the clock ticked towards zero, Harvard’s miraculous, last-ditch effort had worked. The game was tied, and Harvard remained in line to earn at least one point—and a share of Ivy title...
...definitely felt the crowd behind me as I jumped so my jumps were as much powered by the friends and family members I had cheering for me as my legs,” Laine said. “The atmosphere was just as loud and exciting as I expected and it was much appreciated...