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...With that potential having been partially realized, the team enters the season with consistent Top 20 status and an outright Ivy Championship in mind. Seniors Kate Nagle and co-captains Liz Sarles and Maisa Badawy will lead the Crimson's attack. Badawy will orchestrate the offense from left midfield, a position where she led the team with nine assists last year and earned Second Team All-Ivy honors...
...officers and petty officers manning the ship's controls would have had no time to react before the combined power of the blast and seawater tore through, destroying the gleaming arrays of switches, computers and video screens that constitute the "brain" of a submarine. All would have been killed outright or quickly drowned. From there, the water is likely to have cascaded through passageways and doors into the "sail," the conning tower above the control room, and into communications spaces and living quarters just aft of the sail. At that point, the floodwaters were probably thwarted by thick, watertight bulkheads...
Both George W. Bush and Al Gore have staked out the "death tax" as a campaign issue. Bush wants to repeal it outright. Gore has reacted by proposing to double the exemption, to $5 million per family for a business left in an estate. Both positions reflect a sudden urge on the part of government to help family-owned businesses. Maybe it's because the unleashing of the Internet has put a spotlight on entrepreneurial pursuit and its value in an economy in which small businesses continue to provide the most jobs. Maybe it's because in flush times...
...point in the incident--the point at which the attacks escalated from lighthearted water-splashing into violence and sexual assault--was when a young woman who'd just been splashed playfully lifted her shirt and flashed the crowd. People in this city are too politically correct to say it outright, but many New Yorkers I interviewed for stories on the attacks implied it: This girl was to blame. In that brief, careless act--or so the train of thought goes--she single-handedly tipped the balance of the male spectators' conception of women...
Students say the committee's greatest failing was to dismiss a wage boost outright...