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...always talk about starting with our defense and it happened tonight,” said forward Andre Logan. “If they’re stuck on a number and we’re keeping them from scoring, we’re going to be able to get a lead with a few good offensive plays...
...House, leaders are worried if they move too quickly and support a bill with painful benefit reductions, the Senate will come along afterwards and opt for another less painful approach leaving House members politically vulnerable. Move too slowly, and House members will be stuck with a Senate bill that might raise the income cap from which Social Security taxes are drawn, which many conservative Republicans view as an unacceptable tax hike...
Here are a couple of examples. The friend of mine who just came back from Tanzania wrote in an e-mail that “…being stuck in a box with nothing but the BBC makes for a postmodern haven that is, at moments, unfulfilling. I fear I’ve also come to the realization that Cambridge, Mass. is a better place to study Africa than the continent itself, unless one really knows what s/he is doing. I’m afraid I feel guilty enough about receiving school credit for the classes I took this...
...conversation set off a media frenzy not unlike the current one, and Summers stuck to a familiar script—first declaring the whole thing a misunderstanding, then apologizing for unintentionally hurting any feelings, and finally taking institutional measures to rectify the problems some saw as the heart of the conflict. He met with West, and according to an extensive write-up in the Washington Post, the two of them “actually bonded” for a brief period over their cancer survival stories (Summers had survived Hodgkin’s Disease, while West had battled prostate cancer...
...promising negotiations and a healthy dialogue between Summers and Department of African and African American Studies Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr., West ended up leaving for Princeton with famed philosopher K. Anthony Appiah joining him not long after. By the end of the saga, the embattled University President was stuck with the criticism of having torn apart Harvard’s ascendant African American Studies department...