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This fall, the production of Pippen cast about one-third of its performers from outside the University and the production of Cabaret is operating very close to the 50 percent limitation...
...Jen’s job was to mark [Henderson] out of the game,” Caples said. “We’ll play a zone defensively from our defensive one-third. But what we do, Jen’s usually in the middle...
...recent years, the College took as many as 75 or 80 transfer students annually, of which about one-third typically came in the spring...
Raising the new force is proving as tricky as arming it. More than 500 men signed up for the first battalion. Most were flown to Kabul from provincial recruitment centers; others arrived on horseback or on foot. One 14-year-old boy, an orphan, tried to sign up; the Americans turned him away. But by graduation, more than one-third of the trainees had dropped out. Many had arrived with the idea that they would be training in the U.S. or Turkey, then quit when they realized that they were destined only for the battle-scarred Afghan Military Academy outside...
...countries like Cambodia, high-tech gizmos stand little chance against a scourge that has become virtually an epidemic. Best estimates put the number of prostitutes in Cambodia at about 30,000, and as many as one-third of these are thought to be under 18 years old?many of them trafficked into the country illegally from neighboring Vietnam. These child prostitutes are highly profitable bait for well-heeled visitors. More than 65% of all tourists to Cambodia are men, and one-fifth of them are there for the sex industry, according to a survey of travel agents by World Vision...