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...younger linebackers consist of juniors Ray Hill and Sean Tracy and sophomore Gary Garcia, who all should see playing time this season. Though Murphy admits that depth may be a problem if the injury bug hits, the back-ups hope to provide a spark if called upon...
...final bright spot in the game was freshman forward Julie Lane. Playing with a fast, yet controlled aggressiveness, Lane continued to show promise coming off the Crimson bench and serving as a spark plug...
...sources are other books and news stories--into a pattern made tidy and linear by hindsight. His indictment of U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement agencies covers well-trodden ground, though sometimes the might-have-beens and could-have-seens are stretched thin. The stuff that is going to spark hot debate is Chapter 19, an account--based on Zubaydah's claims as told to Posner by "two government sources" who are unnamed but "in a position to know"--of what two countries allied to the U.S. did to build up al-Qaeda and what they knew before that September...
...consultant in New York City, have been friends since Eddy was assigned to the desk behind hers at study hall in high school. The two didn't become close until they attended Brown University together, but at that point they forged a lasting bond. "People usually think of a spark between people in terms of romantic relationships, but I think there are friend sparks as well, where you suddenly feel this intense connection," says Augenblick. "R.P. and I had that in college. I really wanted to spend time with...
...professor of communication at Idaho's Boise State University. "The longer the friendship lasts, the more likely each person is to see the other as a friend." (One study, however, suggests that at around the two-year mark, platonic friends often reconsider their romantic options.) Moreover, Augenblick's friend-spark idea has a basis in academic theory. According to Reeder, three types of attraction can exist between men and women: sexual, romantic and friendly. Often, Reeder says, people will feel one or two forms of attraction without the third. For example, a woman might feel drawn...