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Tung attributed the low turnout in part to overlap with Junior Parents Weekend, which she said would lessen the number of participants from the class...
...Where a collegial mode of operation exists, people expect to carry on more responsibility,” he says. “I believe that faculty members could indeed become committed to a shared vision. I believe there’s a lot of overlap that goes on even at this point of shared vision...
...common. In some cases, both suffered from migraine headaches, both had a fear of heights, both were nail biters. Some shared little eccentricities, like flushing the toilet both before and after using it. When quizzed on their religious values and spiritual feelings, the identical twins showed a similar overlap. In general, they were about twice as likely as fraternal twins to believe as much--or as little--about spirituality as their sibling did. Significantly, these numbers did not hold up when the twins were questioned about how faithfully they practiced any organized religion. Clearly, it seemed, the degree to which...
...Winton's novels, minor characters are often set adrift only to resurface in other works; here they overlap and metamorphose. The collection's most haunting figure, small-town crim and shark hunter Boner McPharlin, goes from being the sheepskin-coated kid glimpsed in Long, Clear View to the silent driving partner of the narrator of Boner McPharlin's Moll, who, decades later, returns from overseas to nurse him in a psychiatric hospital. At its best, the device creates a poetic sense of ribboning destiny. "Perhaps time moves through us," concludes the narrator of Aquifer, "and not us through...
...Iraq war, conservative stance comes through loud and clear. The articles also highlight different aspects of the speech, with Fox focusing on Allawi’s gratefulness to America where CNN notes that the speech was made against a backdrop of growing violence and hostage-taking. There is little overlap throughout the stories. Each outlet mentions different facts, emphasizes different points and even presents the story differently (Fox News put the story at the top of its website with a picture; CNN opted for a simple hyperlinked headline). These are two different accounts of the same event. So who?...