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LaMacchia, like Proudfit, surpassed the 1,000-point mark last week, helping Cornell (9-9, 4-2 Ivy) steamroll Penn, 74-50. Her 17 points were not enough to propel the Big Red over the Tigers, however...
...decisions so that changes are made for the good of the students and not the good of the College's finances. At the same time, issues important to women on campus are not and should not be cloistered in Radcliffe Yard. Concerns about safety, tenure and political participation will propel discussion for women all over campus this spring and will hopefully lead to significant improvements in the learning environment for all female undergraduates...
...very size of Magellan has helped propel a technology-stock boom that some investors believe is due for a bust. Mutual funds that invest solely in computer and electronics companies have enjoyed returns of as much as 50% to 70% so far this year. But the sound of bursting bubbles echoed last week after Smith Barney technology analyst Jonathan Cohen questioned the high prices of some of the most speculative offerings on the NASDAQ exchange. Netscape, which traded as high as 161 that day, fell 28 3/4 points when Smith Barney said the Internet software company was probably worth...
Amir saw himself as an agent of God, much as Lee Harvey Oswald saw himself as an agent of "history." The young man's mania lay in this desire for greatness. Amir created a destiny for himself that would make him greater than Rabin. One brutal act would propel him out of obscurity. One brutal act would make him a hero or a martyr...
...retrieve gold and silver statues, festooned with feathers, that were part of the traditional offering to the gods. Reinhard had scaled dozens of Andean peaks over the past 15 years searching for just such a treasure. Now he was worried that further underground movement on Mount Ampato might propel Juanita down the ravine, where she would be lost forever. "I couldn't just leave," Reinhard says. "I had it in my power to preserve a mummy and some beautiful statues that were about to fall...