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Despite seeming to have a disappointing season on paper, the Harvard men’s lacrosse team (6-6, 2-4 Ivy) took an important step in 2010 toward asserting itself in the static hierarchy that has marked Ivy League lacrosse for decades...
According to a student survey, which had a 50 percent participation rate, breakfast attendance rates have remained static this year in spite of the elimination of hot breakfast, Mayer noted...
...help Cameron finally convince the public to give him and his party sufficient backing for a conclusive victory. Andrew Hawkins, chairman of the polling organization ComRes, says that "too many people still don't know what the Conservative leader stands for. His rating on this measure has been static for the past two years at approximately 50-50." (See "David Cameron: U.K.'s Next Leader...
Martel identifies Henry’s temporary loss of an authorial voice with that of the extinct animal and those of Holocaust victims. Martel also appears to take umbrage at the idea that the Holocaust must always remain a static concept. According to Henry, first-hand accounts of past suffering cannot accomplish the same emotional and intellectual challenge that a piece of fiction can. Martel’s book is therefore a revolutionary move written in protest against the reluctance to portray the Holocaust outside of non-fiction. Yet a simple look at the corpus of contemporary Western literature shows...
...creating cyber-bodyguards," says Sanjay Bavisi, president of the council. "We're not creating combat people." But as the world becomes increasingly interconnected via the Internet, the stakes have become too high to rely on static defenses alone to protect the immense flows of vital information that operate the world's financial, medical, governmental and infrastructure systems. "The bad guys already have the hacking technologies," Bavisi says. "We can say, 'Tough luck. The bad guys play by different rules, and you can't do anything about it, so just go lock your doors.' Or we can tell the good guys...