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...assists, however, do not usually pile up for Tubridy as they did on Saturday. In fact, assists have historically been a rare commodity for Harvard women’s basketball players. Last year’s captain Jennifer Monti ’02 holds the team’s single-game record with just 14. Tubridy attributed her success in distributing the ball to the excellent options her teammates offer...
...Administration intends to pile up as many instances of obstruction as possible. Iraq has thumbed its nose at high-altitude U-2 surveillance flights, refusing to guarantee their safety unless the U.S. and Britain stop patrolling the no-fly zones. The discovery a few weeks ago of Iraq's illicit acquisition of missile engines and purchases of barred chemical explosives indicates concrete violations of resolution terms. British officials have also compiled a list indicting Iraq for deliberately hampering inspectors during the past two months. They say Iraq has 20,000 intelligence officers engaged in disrupting inspections and concealing weapons. They...
...over the past several years across the mainland specifically to lend to small companies. One applicant, the owner of a factory that makes pickled vegetables, visited Binbin's office recently with his ledger: a single piece of handwritten paper folded in his breast pocket. Other would-be borrowers often pile receipts on Binbin's desk in lieu of a balance sheet. Even those who keep books "usually have two or three," Binbin says. "They figure out what we want and write it down...
...It’s a social critique of the whole gage-throwing phenomenon...it’s a mockery of a scene in Richard the Second where a bunch of guys onstage throw down gages and soon there’s a whole pile,” Guest said...
...January, 10 of these unlikely crusaders gather around the bed in Su's bare-walled house to recount their misfortunes. Wang Hao displays a pile of photographs of houses rent apart at the seams. Zu Youming reads from a handwritten sheet listing the times he's been rebuffed by local officials. On the bed lies a petition with red thumbprints beside each signature. Suddenly, from below the house comes the startling sound of exploding dynamite. Su's home heaves upward and his windows rattle. "Don't worry," says the bathhouse owner. "That's just the miners, back from their lunch...