Word: plateauing
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...final appearance in a Crimson uniform, Clemente had his sixth career double-double with 17 points and 10 rebounds. Harvard is now 5-1 when Clemente reaches that plateau...
...sputtering Crimson enters the final weekend of the season playing only for pride. A sweep over Columbia and Cornell would bring the squad to the .500 plateau in the Ivy League...
...weekend as the reigning Ivy League Player of the Week, averaging 14.8 points and 6.8 rebounds on the season. She played like a star the night before when she scored 24 points and grabbed eight rebounds in a win over Dartmouth in which she surpassed the 1,000 point plateau for her career...
...ditties like The Communist Party Turned Bitter to Sweet. The change comes instead from people like artist Li Bing, whose father once oversaw Chairman Mao's travel plans. Backpacking through China, she grew enamored of Tibet. After studying its language for a year, she spent six months on the plateau in 1998 and later produced an exhibition of her work featuring Polaroids of Chinese and Tibetans next to their overlapping handprints. Since then, travel to the Roof of the World has become as common for artists as a paint-spattered studio, and many galleries peddle their renderings of noble Tibetan...
Chinese have fallen for Tibet. Growing numbers of Chinese now practice Tibet's form of Buddhism, fill their glasses with Tibetan booze and consider a jaunt on the high plateau a badge of cool. Many of the Tibetan practices they ape can be as tacky as white men in redface doing a rain dance. Yet given that official propaganda has for decades blamed Tibetan culture itself for keeping Tibetans poor, ignorant and not above suspicion of cannibalism, this sudden interest shows the government's decreasing ability to mold public opinion, and the growing independence of Chinese trendmakers. "More information about...