Word: stoppingly
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...shooting from the floor and added five rebounds. She got plenty of help: each of the other four BU starters scored in double figures, with Aly Hinton and Kristi Dini chipping in nine and seven rebounds to their scoring totals. After senior forward Katie Rollins made a layup to stop the bleeding with 16:01 to go in the opening half, the Crimson began to get its bearings and hang with the Terriers. A three-pointer from sophomore forward Claire Wheeler made the score 19-11 with 12:46 to go, but Harvard would not get within single digits again...
...easiest thing to do is to stop making new hires rather than to try and fire people,” she said...
...high commissioner from Pakistan to Great Britain, characterized the relationship between Pakistan and the U.S. as precarious and facing “increasing hostility.” “A trust deficit has emerged between the two nations,” she said. She said the U.S. must stop treating Pakistan “as hired help” rather than an ally. Rubin also called for an increased focus on Pakistan. “The war on terror should focus on where terrorists are recruited, trained, and armed, and that is Pakistan,” he said. Lodhi...
...There are few consequences to opting out of culture wars, because in the end the most that will ever be at stake is a grade. A worker cannot adopt this bystander perspective. Workers let down other people when they fail at their work. Cultural differences stop being endearing and start being frustrating when they prevent one’s own success in another society. These clashes are necessary to help one understand another people’s way of life, and they are more likely to happen in the high-stakes workplace than in the ivory tower of study...
...whether this surge in prosecutions and publicity is a case of due process finally starting to work - or a hurried effort designed to tie Obama's hands as he tries to shut the facility. Once they are under way, Obama could find it politically and legally difficult to stop the controversial proceedings or shift them out of Guantánamo. "All this activity, and an expanding list of trials that cannot possibly conclude before the next President takes office, is irresponsible," says Adam Schiff, a California Democrat and member of both the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees. Saying...