Word: rhodes
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...Onstage he connected viscerally with audiences. Taking his bows, he spread wide his enormous stevedore arms in a gesture of embrace, often flaunting a trademark white handkerchief that was approximately the size of Rhode Island. As applause cascaded over him, he visibly inhaled it like life-giving oxygen, which it was to him. "I am enthusiastic of the job I do and enthusiastic of life," he once said. "The pleasure of the profession is the human warmth around me, the public out there...
...Harvard men’s soccer team’s season-opening victory against Rhode Island on Saturday bumped the Crimson from No.15 to No. 13 in College Soccer News’ national rankings and earned individual accolades for senior co-captain Matt Hoff and freshman Alex Chi. Hoff, who assisted on the first two Harvard goals before adding the game-winning score in the 3-2 win over the Rams, was named to the College Soccer Division I National Team of the Week. Hoff’s goal came midway through the second half, when he juked two defenders...
With the sun shining favorably on Saturday, the defending Ivy League champion and 15th-ranked Harvard men’s soccer team opened its 2007 campaign with a win against the defending Atlantic 10 champion, No. 22 Rhode Island. “This is a great win for us,” co-captain Matt Hoff said. “This is one of the better teams we are going to play all season.” Fifteen minutes into the second half, with the score locked at 2-2, Hoff collected a pass on the right wing from junior...
Forty-one U.S. states currently have license-revocation laws on the books. The nine that don't are Kentucky, Michigan, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota and Tennessee. Most of these states have policies that allow officers to revoke a driver's license after conviction, or immediately with repeat offenders, but Wagenaar's study found that such laws do little to deter drunk driving or to reduce fatalities...
...ultimately, it is control of the war that Democrats plan on spending all night tonight debating in a rare filibuster over an amendment sponsored by Levin and Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat, that specifically dictates a timeline for starting to withdraw U.S. troops no later than 120 days after enactment and ending in April 2008. Democrats are holding the Senate in session throughout the night because Republicans are using a filibuster to prevent a simple majority from bringing the measure to a vote...