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...steam ran out, however. The host team managed to win the fourth and fifth games to overpower the Crimson three games...
With Rush Limbaugh baying about the evils of university liberalism and Newt Gingrich proselytizing for prayers in public schools, it comes as no surprise that another item on the New Right's agenda has steadily gained steam in the last few years: book banning. And if a school district around Philadelphia is any indication, the consequences could be even more chilling than anything proposed by our new Congress...
Earlier this year, the effort to randomize the housing lottery was gaining steam. Several administrators and House masters revived their argument for enhancing diversity in residential life at Harvard. We opposed randomization because of our belief in the value of student choice...
...people were pretty rusty after coming after break and we had only had two practices after the break," FitzGerald said. "We just weren't going into the meet full steam by any means...
...steam began rising for Carnegie Mellon University four weeks ago, when one of its research associates, Martin Rimm, informed the administration that a draft of his study of pornography on the computer networks was about to be released. Rimm had made an elaborate analysis of the sexually oriented material available online. Not only had he put together a picture collection that rivaled Bob Guccione's (917,410 in all), but by tracking how many times each image had been retrieved by computer users (a total of 6.4 million downloads), he had obtained a measure of the consumer demand for different...