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...With the outright title on the line, Penn will travel to Ithaca to face Cornell. With a victory against the Big Red, the Quakers will snag their seventh outright title...
...crucifixion of Jesus, the standard chronology would make it outright impossible that this event occurred on any "13th" if the Last Supper took place on the 15th of Nisan (i.e. the first evening of Passover), the first month of the ecclesiastical calendar and the ninth of the civil calendar. November...
...report. Some of the "requests for admission" ask whether he lied in his deposition in the Paula Jones case or in his testimony before Starr's grand jury. White House lawyers say they are working on quick replies, but don't expect them to send any that admit to outright perjury or obstruction of justice. The Republican strategy, cooked up before the election, seemed to be that eliciting denials from the White House on some issues would justify further hearings into these matters. That's another wish that may prove problematic. "We're like Wyle E. Coyote," said a conservative...
...think about everything. Think, for example, of a mistake you've made or bad experience you've had. As a child, you may have been trained to think of your bad experiences or mistakes as "learning experiences." That way, you don't have to conceive of those experiences as outright losses. But consider for a moment: have you ever actually learned anything from a "learning experience"? Or, more precisely, have you ever actually avoided doing the same thing twice because you "learned" from your mistake? People tend to make the same mistakes again and again. Bad experiences...
...welfare has attracted critics from both the left and the right, there is no uniform definition. By TIME's definition, it is this: any action by local, state or federal government that gives a corporation or an entire industry a benefit not offered to others. It can be an outright subsidy, a grant, real estate, a low-interest loan or a government service. It can also be a tax break--a credit, exemption, deferral or deduction, or a tax rate lower than the one others...