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...news across the board for the Crimson freshmen. First-year defender Chris Huxley had a pass intercepted at his own blue line at the end of the second period. The errant pass led to a breakaway and shorthanded score for PEI’s Craig Foster that brought the margin back to one goal at 4-3. “We all made mistakes out there today,” Taylor said of the miscue. “[We were] shaking the rust off, and it didn’t matter if you were a freshman or a senior...
...company realized that with all the costs and complications associated with doing business in hurricane-prone Mississippi, especially the fact that global warming is predicted to make hurricanes increasingly frequent and intense, it could not continue operating in the state at its desired profit margin unless it raised its rates. And because insurance rates are often capped by states, State Farm felt it had no option other than to get out of Mississippi...
...proposed 88 years ago by Sun Yat Sen, the founding father of Modern China. In 1992, when Chinese Premier Li Peng submitted a proposal for the dam to China's normally pliant parliament, the National People's Congress, it ran into serious opposition and ultimately passed with the smallest margin in the legislature's history...
...such as cooking spaghetti, to intellectual discussions with total strangers to heart--stopping, beyond-reality experiences. His images are at times so vivid and meticulously detailed that reading them is like watching a movie. When I started reading A Wild Sheep Chase, I made a pencil dot in the margin next to every memorable phrase or description. Eventually each page was marked with so many dots that I decided instead to reread the book - which I've done about seven times. His works are like symphonies that one enjoys listening to over and over again. Mel Leyde, Sophiatown, South Africa
...recent study of the political leanings of college professors reports that moderates outnumber liberals by a small margin among college faculties. The study also showed that conservatives are in the minority of professors...