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When I was but a wee first-year, my expectations for my career at (what I unpretentiously assumed to be) the best university in the world were sky-high. I believed I could take hard classes, volunteer in the afternoons, work ten hours a week and still party like the lively first-year I was (weekends only, of course). I also thought I could join the Undergraduate Council. Boy, was I wrong...
Fitzpatrick knows better than anyone that those sky-high personal numbers are easily within reach, but to attain them would diminish the offensive whole, and that this is no zero-sum game. If he were to throw at the expense of Dawson’s touches, opponents could key on the pass and eventually limit his effectiveness...
...Thomas would harass the beleaguered signal caller and send him tumbling to the turf—or into an ill-advised toss, like the one a couple of plays later when Thomas scrambled up from the ground to hit O’Neil as he threw, launching the ball sky-high and straight into Williamson’s waiting arms for the first of his two interceptions on the game...
Remember when Friends was still around? Those were happier times for actors--when the ones with hit shows could band together and demand sky-high salaries from their networks. TV actors JORJA FOX and GEORGE EADS, longtime supporting-cast members of CBS's No. 1--rated drama, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, must have been clinging to that million-dollar dream when they recently asked the network for bumps in their pay. Eads never arrived on the set the first day of filming, despite having signed a letter promising CBS that he would show up for work, whereas Fox failed...
...space for exercise to the South Bronx. Or by Lance Morgan?s efforts to create an ?active living? community for his fellow Winnebago tribe members, so many of whom die young from obesity. We need more ideas like these to bring solutions to minority communities, where obesity rates are sky-high and poverty is an obstacle to healthy eating. We also heard ideas for using more funds from the Transportation Bill for paths for walking and biking...