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...spot while the tandem of junior Elsa O’Rain and senior Melissa Anderson edged out a 9-8 win at No. 1 doubles. Anderson was similarly successful in singles play, dispaching Fresno State’s Magdalena Tokarska. With the Bulldogs threatening to overwhelm Harvard in the singles matchups, Schnitter and Mukundan responded, sealing the victory with wins in the Nos. 5 and 6 spots. The Crimson will see its next action on Friday when Cornell visits the Beren Tennis Center to kick off Ivy League play. —THE CRIMSON STAFF
...fregula soup with clams. It's a simple recipe--fregula is just a kind of pasta--but the soup looks a mess. An intemperate amount of chili flakes has gone in, as has what seemed unadvisedly large pinches of saffron, which has a neat but metallic flavor that can overwhelm. As Batali stumbles over a loose cord onstage, it occurs to me that he must be exhausted. It's noon Sunday, and less than 12 hours before, he had been drinking with Emeril Lagasse and their entourages. They hadn't left the Peninsula hotel bar until 1:30 a.m., after...
...legal system would collapse. Said the spokeswoman: "Because there's such a large influx of people coming across, if we're to put the threshold at four and send them up [to Tucson, Ariz., or Phoenix, Ariz., for processing], we'd be sending ... too many people, and it would overwhelm the immigration system...
...theory that emotional stress in the early years inhibits proper development of certain areas of the brain - specifically, it causes malfunctions within the amygdala and the hippocampus that make the child less able to cope with stress. Eventually (perhaps in childhood, perhaps not till adulthood) anxiety and hopelessness overwhelm...
...earns extra money by cramming people into subway trains during rush hours, has the tables turned on him when he meets a sexually aggressive woman whose equally voracious girlfriends work him into a corner and tear his clothes off. The story ends on a day when the crowds overwhelm the Push Man and he becomes trapped on the moving train, helplessly pleading to be let off, "I'm the Push...