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...lack of national recognition the team receives, people forget Harvard was one of the progenitors of the game. The shape of Harvard Stadium was one of the factors for instituting the forward pass...
...called the space where we worked the "U", partially because it was the largest single industry in the state, partially because, as a land-grant institution, it was grounded in a populist tradition (it was for "U" and everyone, the football stadium was in the shape of a "U", the instruction was crafted to appeal to any and everyone, just for "U"). In the years I taught there, classes sometimes enrolled 200 students. Financial conditions did not allow teaching assistants to help grade papers. Everything was done catch-as-catch-can, on a thumb and limb, but with an incredible...
...although elections are still two weeks away, the shape of this new council is already beginning to take form. Council insiders predict, among other trends, the diminished role of one of last year's most prominent council factions--the Progressive Undergraduate Council Coalition (PUCC)--due to a diminished numbers of returning PUCC representatives...
...complete a specific number of divisions. When that process is disrupted, as commonly happens in old cells, problems like osteoporosis and immunological failure set in. Conversely, so-called immortal cells that continue to divide past their allotted count turn cancerous and can proliferate indefinitely. "We'd be in worse shape if cells didn't undergo senescence," says Smith, who studies the aging of cells. "In that case, we might have cancers earlier and more frequently...
...forces. Dole appeared unsure of what he believed and, even worse, seemed powerless to achieve what he wanted even when he knew what it was. To win over the party's most conservative activists--and it is they who largely controlled the nomination process--Dole bent himself out of shape. As a moderate, mainstream Republican in the mold of his hero, Dwight Eisenhower, Dole never became comfortable with his own campaign's core themes and strategy, the tactics and messages designed by his professional handlers that he felt obliged to follow. "I'd been beaten before, and you have...