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...Tigers (15-9-3, 10-6-0) are hoping for a rebirth of sorts., praying that the regular season doesn’t matter once the playoffs begin, or at the very least, that they can revert to pre-Christmas form. Before the new year, Princeton upset top-ranked Dartmouth, 3-1, and downed Harvard in overtime...
Vladimir Nabokov, visiting lecturer on Slavic Languages and Literature, and Theodore Morrison, professor of English, both agreed that critics would not revert to a literal interpretation of the novel now that a French vessel has reported the capture of a real albino sperm whale...
...holidays we all revert back to our younger, less confident selves, trying desperately to mesh our adult existences and expectations into the sticky and alluring web of childhood roles and memories. This year, we vow, we will behave like someone who has her own apartment, pays her own bills, holds down a steady job and negotiates the pitfalls of a long-term relationship. We will not dissolve into tears when well-meaning neighbors ask us when are we getting married, already. We will not stomp up the stairs and kick our bedroom door closed if someone questions our take...
...lots of money," he says, laughing. Jacky regards people smuggling as simply another line of business. While he concedes that government supervision has tightened?Malaysian police have arrested a number of alleged smugglers in recent months?Jacky believes that eventually his meticulously organized and highly profitable business will revert back to normal. How much money does he make? Jacky smiles. "You guess. I drive an S-Class Mercedes. My wife also drives a Mercedes. It is very profitable...
...found and frozen about $300 million in Osama bin Laden's and the Taliban's money, and while some of it could revert to a future Afghan government, this may not deter potential plaintiffs--including victims of the 1998 embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. "For families of victims, suing bin Laden and the Taliban is a way of fighting back," says Pamela Falk, a law professor at the City University of New York. If Congress lists Afghanistan as a terrorist state, she says, "the prospects have never looked better...