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There was his freshman year when the highly touted recruit burst on the Ivy scene to average 14.5 points per game (ppg). James proved why he had received overtures from such powerhouses as Michigan, Michigan State and St. John's as he was named the Ivy League Rookie of the Year...
...here I understand the city faces severe fiscal problems. We can't recruit new police officers, we face teacher layoffs and no increase in pay for teachers," said Walsh...
Foreign policy is an exercise in discrimination. Our resources, like our stores of compassion, are finite. We take up arms against those troubles that are both particularly evil and particularly threatening to us. And we husband our resources to meet those troubles. That will occasionally mean having to * recruit others to help and having to make moral compromises to keep that help. Hence our long minuet with the Soviets over the Baltics...
...professors would indirectly recruit students to their fields of study. Their enthusiasm for their lives' work would inevitably rub off on students. Such passion is not always communicated from the podium...
...cities may be able to absorb the death of one young man with indifference, but in places like Coulterville (pop. 115) the loss strikes home with intense personal force. "If I could trade for Thom, I'd do it," says the distraught Marine who helped recruit him. "Poor...