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...else would the NCAA put the two unproven top teams, Temple and Depaul, in the same regional? The sometimes brilliant play of Nate Blackwell makes Temple a threat. DePaul and Dallas Comegys, however, could easily be upset by St. John's if Mark Jackson plays at his peak rather than repeating his horror show versus Providence...
...this addition as a year-round improvement," said Walter Watts, Au Bon Pain manager. "As it is now we fill up during peak hours, during lunches and in the evenings and of course we lose a lot of business in the cold weather...
...stoking her own infidelity and her husband's, displaying the terminal patient's luxury of being both noble and bitter, Andrews transforms Tom Kempinski's case history into a metaphor for middle age. Stephanie could be any careerist facing a mid-life crisis of confidence -- Is she at her peak or past it? -- or the cripple any woman feels herself to be when her man goes randying after younger bodies and more pliant hearts. Andrews doesn't tear a passion to tatters; she uses it to stitch a coherent soul...
SINCE THE stop has been moved nothing has changed. People still wait inside the warmth of the Science Center until they see the approaching bus and then run across the street to the Memorial Hall driveway. End result: At peak hours, the 40 people crossing Oxford Street en masse obstruct just as much traffic as ever...
...dwindling numbers in later generations may not be enough to support the huge demands that the baby-boom generation will put on the Social Security system. Demographers predict that payroll taxes on baby boomers now entering their peak earning years will build a surplus of retirement funds that will sustain the Social Security system for a while. But by 2020 the amount coming in from the smaller cohort of workers behind the boomers will not be enough to cover costs. Says Ben Wattenberg of A.E.I.: "What you put into a Social Security system is babies, and what...