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...laughs. “We’ve even tied for 16th before and had to swim off.”As the Jones’ talent grew in their late teens, the twins abandoned their second sport—cross-country—and focused on the prospect of recruitment. Despite their childhood fixation with local aquatic powerhouse Michigan, the allure of Cambridge changed the brothers’ thinking.“I feel like swimming is a good balance with academics here,” Bill explains. “I don’t know...
...hand and assured us that everything would turn out well as the door closed. I whipped an already-beat Top-Sider at my poster-clad Pennypacker wall. After a year of scabies, long walks to Annenberg, and gazing at a parking-lot vista from my common room window, the prospect of river views and convenient access to the Square was tantalizing. The Union dormite-to-Quadling story is equivalent to a rags-to-new-rags tale. Friends who had been placed in a dumpy river House insisted I was welcome to move in with them. They jest, I thought. Inspired...
...elements of the IRS's guidance focus on investors being entitled to a theft loss deductible in the year the fraud is discovered, except to the extent there is a claim with a reasonable prospect of recovery...
...What is perhaps most unsettling, though, is that this program’s detractors are discouraging educational experimentation in a time we need it the most. It is unfortunate that the unnecessary desire to be politically correct at any expense interferes with a commitment to the prospect of improvement...
...prospect now is that the deflation evident in the housing market may intensify. As Zheng Jia, 35, who sells medical equipment in Shanghai, said after a weekend looking at villas in suburban Shanghai: "Why buy now, when prices may be lower a month from...