Word: seconded
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Harvard knew its hope of returning to the NCAA tournament for the second straight season rested on its performane in Ivy League play...
After that victory, Harvard met Cornell in its second Ivy League matchup of the season...
Nichols, who was convicted of indecent liberties with a teenage girl (he was 20 at the time) and attempted second-degree rape, had prayed at Moncure Baptist Church in Moncure, N.C., where he was living, for several months before the police paid attention. Oddly enough, Nichols inadvertently outed himself, calling the cops about a fellow congregant - another offender - whom he witnessed fondling a 12-year-old girl. "I thought I was doing the right thing, and they hit me with charges," he says...
...Reid's staff have been working for two weeks to match up the Finance bill with one passed earlier this summer by the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and to resolve second- and third-tier issues, such as administrative streamlining, preventive measures and reinsurance. Over the next two weeks they will finish merging the two measures and begin counting votes on some of the hundreds of amendments expected to be filed. Some losing proposals will have to be raised, debated and then defeated before winning provisions are adopted. For example, 30 members advised Reid last week that the Senate...
...popular level, almost as worrying as the political brinksmanship being played out between Turkey and Israel is the speed with which official hostility has trickled down to the streets. Visitors from Israel to Turkey - formerly the second most popular travel destination for Israelis after the U.S. - have fallen 47% since January, compared with the same period last year. The Turkish government has also been less than careful in fanning the flames of anti-Semitism. Erdogan recently exhorted university students to take a page from "the Jews," whom, he said, "invent things and then sit back and make money off those...