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...fasting can lead to profound self-reflection as well. Those few hours before the sun sets and one is allowed to eat are precisely the time in which one realizes just how easy it is to succumb to temptation. The idea that all it takes is a candy bar to bring a man to his knees is a supremely humbling idea. This weakness rightly serves to remind us of how fragile we are as individuals...
...Chevron complaint also fingered Correa's chief legal adviser, Alexis Mera, in the scheme. At a press conference on Sept. 1, Mera denied being involved and suggested that Chevron was simply trying to divert attention away from a case it knows it will probably lose. "The government won't succumb to these types of provocations," he said...
...near! As the sun finally begins to peek out from behind the clouds, you will concentrate much less on studying than you did during last reading period. You may even succumb to the upperclassmen’s belief that reading period could be more aptly named “drinking period...
...easy, and several title holders have crumbled under the pressure. In 1988, Jamaican-born Canadian Ben Johnson clocked a scorching 9.79 at the Seoul Olympics, but quickly had his record expunged after testing positive for the anabolic steroid stanozolol. Johnson wasn't the last World's Fastest Human to succumb to the lure of steroids. American sprinter Justin Gatlin, who ran a 9.77 at a meet in Qatar, is serving a four-year suspension for doping, and Tim Montgomery - who called the title the "top of the food chain" in sports - was ensnared in the BALCO steroid scandal and stripped...
...name residents live in Preston Hollow’s enormous estates; the entire city knows it, and to perpetuate the residents’ collective identity as anything else but what they are—a smattering of Texas’s political and social elite—is to succumb to their power...