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...penalized for its outstanding run through the league or for the fact that the league has been extremely weak over the past two seasons. But inherently the Quakers have been. When the last game that matters occurs a full month before the next, it’s hard to retain that edge no matter how hard you try.The folks around the league that have experienced more than just one era of Ivy basketball will point to the early to mid 1990s, when winning the league by three to five games was the norm. From 1991 to 1998, the league champion...
...condition of the sale, the VFW post will continue to operate part of the building, and will retain some current features—including on-site parking and a towering model rocketship, implanted into the facade and a testament to its year of construction...
...second round. Thus the continuation of the opposing political agendas that have haunted this country since it became the first independent black nation in 1804: The impoverished majority will accept nothing less than Preval, regardless of the actual vote count; most of the wealthy elite will fight to retain the status quo and keep him out of power. The election that offered the potential for a fresh start appears instead to have revealed that Haiti's crippling social divisions still drive its politics...
Success has allowed the Google guys to retain a childlike approach. (It probably helps that although they have girlfriends, each is single.) Page, 33, grew up in Michigan obsessed with inventing things. In college he built a functioning ink-jet printer out of Lego pieces. Page's father was a computer-science professor at Michigan State; his mother taught computer programming. When he isn't working, Page spends his time staying fit (his latest passion is windsurfing) and playing with gadgets, like his new TiVo-type radio device. He's into music (he attended a recent U2 concert in Oakland...
Although Foster is a lecturer in the Folklore and Mythology department, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) rules dictate that any non-tenured instructor may teach at the College for a maximum of eight years. A loophole to this rule allows for lecturers with certain administrative positions to retain lecturer status indefinitely, according to Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures Julie Buckler...