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...male-dominated clientele, Gaudet has noticed a pattern: the “big fish in a small pond syndrome.” He explains, “Attending this University comes with a lot of expectations. Kids feel that they need to live up to the name. Either they’re legacies and it was ordained from birth that they attend, or this is their first step up, and they feel like they don?...
...worldwide: Attack whenever and wherever you can. Sometimes the mother ship may provide financial and logistical support, but the dirty work seems to be handled by local, autonomous units that are intimately familiar with their areas and can plan and attack below the radar of local security forces. The pattern, says Rand Corporation terrorism expert Bruce Hoffman, "is to send a handful of professional terrorists to make contact with existing local terrorist groups, who provide the cannon fodder--that is, the suicide bombers...
...shoveled into his ailing business?until the day of reckoning. Crushed by debt that far exceeded his annual income, Choi was forced to sell his house to pay off some of the card companies, but he still owed $113,000. A few weeks ago, he decided to break the pattern that had precipitated his financial ruin. He took scissors to his credit cards but seems reluctant to part with the plastic shards?they rest in a trash can in a dusty basement office from which Choi, a father of two, sells bowling balls online while waiting for the next round...
Indeed, Edwards says the “pattern for study abroad nationally is students in the top third” academically, many of whom are also very active in extracurriculars...
...late in the fourth quarter, Holy Cross’ senior wide receiver Ari Confesor—who had through three-and-a-half quarters plagued the Harvard secondary with his size and quickness, racking up more than 100 yards through the air—began a slant pattern over the middle of the field before quickly slipping into a hole in the Crimson coverage. Crusader quarterback Brian Schiller watched him the whole way and snapped a quick throw, cast perfectly in stride with his route...