Word: rimmed
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Harvard won only three of its final nine games. Of course, Penn and Princeton each caused two, but Harvard never assumed that these perennial Ivy titans were invulnerable. In fact, had Hill's last-second jumper not clanged off the rim at Penn, that game would have gone into overtime...
...while sometimes under attack in the United States, is growing abroad. Our applicant pool has reflected that development: in fewer than 10 years, we have witnessed a growth from about 740 students applying from abroad to 1,825 this past year. One former head of state in the Pacific Rim, in speaking to the young people of his country about how to prepare best for their country's future, advised them to go to one of the great American universities. This kind of advice has been heard more often throughout the world over the past decade. As a result...
Last year I took a freshman seminar on the rise of the Asia-Pacific Rim, so I already fully tasted what it is like to be defending a country that is commonly regarded as possessing a hellish human rights record. It seems very likely that I will have to continue fighting against popular views in sections and papers this term...
...everywhere: deep ultramarine in her skirt and sleeves, lighter blue in the cloth on the table, whose tone rhymes with the rolling bar of the map on the wall--a recession of precisely judged color echoes. It is also reflected in the pitcher, whose basin gathers beneath its rim an exquisitely ordered mosaic of reflections from the tabletop. And then there is the white cotton that drapes her head and shoulders, whose every starched plane and level of translucency is observed, light filtering through a small, soft structure that's as satisfying as one of Cezanne's hillsides...
...Once you get away from the 20,000 troops in Bosnia," says TIME's Thompson, "the numbers can be a little goofy. The best guess at this time, including the support troops, is a figure somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000 committed to the operation in Bosnia and rim countries like Hungary and Italy." House hearings are scheduled to end today; the Senate's turn comes Friday...