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...Portuguese team can keep its head, it could yet win - and you could then expect Providence, R.I., and New Bedford, Mass., to celebrate a victory that has been agonizingly long in coming. Portugal will have much to do before such a result, of course. Germany could easily stand in their way. In his preparations for Euro 2008, German coach Joachim Loew has run his team through basketball drills to improve its defense. That's an original American game, of course, and we're more than happy to share it with him. After all, German immigrants helped establish football in America...
...little technical for my mother,” Bharat P. Das ’08 said, gesturing to the woman beside him. “I might go and read it myself later, but I’m not going to stand in the rain and listen...
...information about textbook names and prices. The Coop claimed that the information was its “intellectual property.” That’s a real stretch, but judicial practice in copyright cases is unpredictable these days. Few students would have the nerve and the resources to stand on principle in federal court...
...committee member Alexander “Zander” N. Li ’08, referring to the Final Report of the Task Force on General Education. “At the end of the day, the categories are very hard to take as these structures that stand alone...
...Charles Schultz’s Snoopy captured it about as well as anyone: ‘I love humanity, it’s people I can’t stand.’ Today, the public and political leaders love ‘education’—it’s colleges and universities they can’t stand,” Spencer wrote in 1999, just after arriving at Harvard...