Word: pit
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...daylong competition, held in Providence, R.I., pit each school’s three top fencers against top fencers from 12 other universities. The school with the most victories earned the overall championship...
...receiving the necessary and critically important advice they need on topics ranging from class selection to plans for after college. These problems, however, run far deeper than the tutors themselves; rather, they stem predominantly from the shortcomings of the current tutor system and selection process. The existing selection procedures pit Houses against each other as they battle for the most talented tutors. Students inevitably suffer from these fights because their House loses strong tutors to another House. Instead of fiercely competing, Houses should be working together to help each other meet their needs. This kind of cooperation would...
...glance, it is puzzling that Romney would pursue such restrictions, which pit him against both the formidable Boston biotechnology community and an overwhelming Democratic majority in the Massachusetts State Legislature. We speculate that this move may be aimed at nothing more than building arch-conservative credentials for the purposes of a 2008 presidential run. Romney is certainly entitled to hold any sort of personal opinion he chooses about the morality of embryonic stem cell research, but wasting the legislature’s time and energy in order to add another line to his résumé disrespects both...
...attending school here weren’t reason enough, administrators have given Harvard students yet another good excuse to slit our wrists. The American Red Cross, always one to capitalize on a good rivalry—terrorism versus freedom, man versus nature—will pit Elis and Cantabs in a competitive blood drive that’s sure to settle once and for all which school has the most blueblood running through its veins. As always, gay blood not welcome. (No, no, it’s true! After all, it is the Red Cross...
...facade lurks an underbelly of vice. This is exactly the quality that you’re looking for in a date spot. While it’s fun to play Whack-a-Mole, it’s more fun to get wasted and fondle each other in the ball pit...