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...continued to flicker. But the outlook was grim. Observed Poland Expert Adam Bromke, a political science professor at Ontario's McMaster University: "The whole thing has the makings of a Greek tragedy. All the actors know they are heading for disaster. But they appear to be under a spell they cannot break...
...competitor whose defensive skills more than carry his airy bat. Wark's hits, though more recent than a few years ago, still don't come in bunches, but the way he wears his shinguards, he would start if he never even fouled one off. Martelli and Kevin Lennon will spell the captain, but you can bet Wark will catch the big ones. There is none better defensively in the league...
...manage to squeeze in, you won't be able to spell out A-L-W-O-O-D, it'll be so crowded and noisy. Half the state will be at that bar, watching the beloved University of North Carolina basketball team end 24 years of frustration by finally winning a national championship...
There's a good reason why they don't spell "summer school" as a single unhyphenated word. The two concepts summer and school are entirely incompatible...
Another New York-based biology textbook editor reports that book salesmen have urged him to delete pictures of some fossils entirely to appease creationists. "The truth is that the most magnificent pattern in biology is evolution," says he, but we don't spell it out for the students. We talk about 'change' a lot, but we try not to say the word 'evolution' very much. So we have a chapter on birds, and one on amphibians. But we don't say how they are connected." Observes Frank Spica, a biology teacher in Evanston...