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...matchup that has traditionally pitted Harvard’s speed against Cornell’s size, it was the Crimson (4-1, 4-1 ECAC) that started the game off on a physical note. Its aggressive forecheck troubled the Big Red (3-3, 3-2) throughout the night, preventing Cornell from building up any sort of offensive rhythm...
...itself for both conventional state warfare and urban warfare. He said the 2006 war in Lebanon, in which Hezbollah guerrillas used sophisticated technology, represents the type of war that the US will have to fight in the future. To prepare for such conflicts, the US military will increase its size by 74,000 over the next three years. The army also desperately needs more “cultural leaders” to help in urban warfare, Casey said. Even while describing these new challenges, Casey warned that US forces are overstressed. “I searched hard for a term...
...reason, had magic powers to fashion a god’s or hero’s life-partner weapon...Frieda, present at the creation of ‘Peanuts,’ helped to forge Schulz’s greatest instrument: his characters’ union of constrained size with irreducible strength.” While it is true that Schulz wanted his characters to be intelligent beyond their apparent years and endowed them with curiosities and fears that gave them philosophical profundity, the analogy seems contrived and ridiculous, and gives too much weight to Schulz’s acquaintance...
...Beckett performance and scholarship. The three short plays included in the show are not widely known and had never been performed on stage before Scanlan’s 2006 exhuming in New York. But as lead actor Alvin Epstein says, “Though they may be smaller in size, that does not make them minor.” Epstein would know: he has a long history of acting in Beckett’s plays, starting with the role of Lucky in the first American production of “Waiting for Godot.” Epstein?...
...system, and have more than a few flaws that cripple the data they provide. The numbers issue is the biggest concern. Paper is inexpensive, easy to distribute, and can be returned fairly easily. Diaries rely on people to remember everything they have recently listened to, but the wide sample size of the paper survey method fills in the inevitable gaps in memory.Understandably for a recently developed device, PPM information is much costlier, and as a result, scarcer. PPMs may be able to provide more comprehensive and accurate data as far as an individual’s exposure to radio signals...