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...Males now make up just 44% of undergraduate students nationwide. And federal projections show their share shrinking to as little as 42% by 2010. This trend is among the hottest topics of debate among college-admissions officers. And some private liberal arts colleges have quietly begun special efforts to recruit men--including admissions preferences for them...
...game against Brown (1-6-2, 0-5-2 ECAC) will be the first in net for freshman back-up netminder Will Crothers. Crothers, a highly touted recruit, has yet to see action for the Crimson due to the near-stellar play of starting goalie Jonas...
Four of the league's eight coaches have yet to be announced, because teams have chosen to wait until the end of the collegiate soccer season and recruit coaches from the NCAA ranks...
...fact that Israel still controls water and electricity supplies to the territories under Yasser Arafat's control - others share the concerns of international monitors over the long-term effect of such a strategy. After all, the declining economic circumstances make it a lot easier for Hamas to recruit young men as suicide bombers, its promise of the paradise of martyrdom holding considerably more allure amidst squalor and hopelessness than it would if those same young men could measure it against a more promising future. And the impoverishment of the incipient Palestinian state darken the already diminished prospects for harmonious coexistence...
...given moment. Enveloped in their cocoon of lonely eccentricity, mother and son watch Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai over and over, and fragments from the film float through the novel like a refrain in a minor key. Eventually, Ludo begins a quest of his own, not to recruit samurai but to track down a father, any father. "I felt ashamed, really ashamed of all the years I'd spent trying to identify the father who happened to be mine, instead of simply claiming the best on offer," Ludo says. He pursues one extraordinary man after another, whose stories are told...