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...Harvard will be without Nichols’s services today at BU and Sunday at Penn, as she suffered a second-degree concussion and three facial fractures during last Sunday’s scoreless tie with St. Mary’s. The Crimson is not alone in facing a strenuous schedule to begin its season, as other teams, such as Ivy-rival Yale (2-3-1, 0-0-0 Ivy) were pitted against perennial powerhouses like North Carolina. The Bulldogs not only lost to the Tar Heels 3-0, but also appeared at number three on ESPN?...
...course is basically tailored for beginners. Don’t bother attending the screenings—you can just as easily check them out on reserve. The Chinese-accented TFs were considered incomprehensible by some, but most people find that showing up for section was the most strenuous effort required.If you’d rather eat food from the People’s Republic than learn about its culture, don’t fret. Foreign Cultures spans several continents, with a surprising quantity of courses centered on literature, arts, and media. For movie buffs, Kirkland House Master Tom Conley?...
...effect, when the weather cooperated and the Scottish mist was just right, drew raves and won Britain's most prestigious lighting-design award. For six weeks last summer, some 6,500 visitors--200 a night--donned boots and waterproofs, picked up headlamps and walking sticks, and made the strenuous two-mile trek to the base of the cliffs, accompanied by snatches of music and Gaelic poetry whispered from the hills...
Hundreds of canceled flights. Huge lines at airports. Ferocious new baggage restrictions. Long delays. Traveling by air during the peak August holiday season is always an ordeal, but this year, it's far more strenuous than usual. Almost a week after the foiling of an alleged terrorist plot to blow up planes flying across the Atlantic, international air traffic remains snarled, especially at British airports, including Heathrow, the world's busiest international hub. Thousands of passengers - and their bags - have been stranded there, and the airlines and the company that runs Heathrow are now engaged in a nasty dispute over...
...dependent he was on Hollywood clich?s. In the 1946 Strange Impersonation, scientists Brenda Marshall and William Gargan (we know they're intellectuals because they both wear nerdy spectacles and have bad posture) are engaged to be married, much to the vexation of lab assistant Hillary Brooke. Through some strenuous plot exertions, Marshall has a fight on her penthouse terrace with another scheming scheming woman, who plunges to her death on the sidewalk below. "Fell right on her face," a bystander observes. "They wouldn't be able to tell who it is." Marshall, lurking out of sight, overhears this...