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Still, the Crimson defense was unable to offset the offense's woes in the middle of the second half. Princeton guards Maggie Langlas and Kate Thirolf both hit 3-pointers on a 13-3 Tiger run that cut the lead to 57-54 with 6:09 left...
...according to Harvard faculty members, the anonymity of large classes is offset by the teaching ability of the engaging and charismatic big name professors who generally preside over big lecture courses. Because these professors are both talented and well-known, they draw more students each time the class is offered. Many faculty members feel that it is unfair to bar students from benefiting from such classes...
...screenwriters concede that they massaged some facts for dramatic effect. To offset the downbeat reality of Andy's premature death, for example, they took a successful Carnegie Hall show from early in Kaufman's career and recast it as his last hurrah before succumbing to cancer. Several girlfriends were combined into a composite character, played by Courtney Love, and a few other liberties were taken as well. But Kaufman's life remains familiar to those who best know it. "Facts, schmacts, they made him honest," says Bill Zehme, who spent six years researching Kaufman for his comprehensive new book Lost...
...world and then compared with one that had stayed in place. If you wanted to live longer, you could keep flying to the east so the speed of the plane added to the earth's rotation. However, the tiny fraction of a second you gained would be more than offset by eating airline meals...
...most disciplined fighting force on the planet. First, he escaped the wild by making a good marriage. That alliance would lead to more critical alliances as Temujin learned to ply diplomacy and a ruthless militancy. Soon, his almost supernatural generalship would win him fiercely loyal followers, enough to offset a multiplicity of traitors and false friends. He vanquished the fractious tribalism of the Mongols by dispersing clansmen among regiments in an army that used death as discipline and looting as reward. Conquered peoples were divided among the armies, swelling the ranks of fighters. Similarly, the technology of the conquered cultures...