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Vance has not lost a step since the end of last season. If anything, he expects to come in stronger and faster than before. After a summer playing in the Horizon Summer Series in Northern California and training under a strenuous off-season workout regime—he partnered with team captain Morgan Brown—Vance will hope to outlast the competition...
...admirably provided. Harvard’s required, 21-meal-a-week plan is purposely designed to provide students with unlimited access to dining services, yet the UC survey also reported that almost 90 percent of students miss dinner at least once a week because of timing. Students’ strenuous class and extracurricular schedules should not inhibit them from receiving the full benefits of their $4,430-a-year meal plan. Consequently, students are often forced to spend their own limited funds on food in the Square, either because they are unable to eat before 7:15 p.m. or because...
...parents and his sister Rosemary and headed back to their New Jersey home as often as he could. But his job frequently kept him in Washington, and the situation left him talking to his colleagues about the influence his father had on him. "He would recount the strenuous efforts his father made to undertake redistricting in a methodical, precise way," says Doug Kmiec, a law professor at Pepperdine University who worked with Alito. "His father gave him a model for how to deal with people in a fair and evenhanded way." Alito Sr. died in 1987 of a heart problem...
...even coached there for many years. As I’ve grown up, and been lucky enough to talk more extensively with my parents and other relatives, even more of the things that I thought set me apart turn out to be old hat. My predilection for strenuous exercise and physical activity? Two of my uncles are exercise nuts who have gone so far as to renounce caffeine. My respect and admiration for the Catholic Church and, a little more oddly, a deep-seated hatred of Henry VIII? My uncle Jim, still sharp at 83, recently rattled off a litany...
...addition, the team overall is stronger as a result of the more strenuous conditioning program. Stehle and Cusworth, as Harvard’s leading big men, are no exception...