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...let’s put a run together,” senior guard Drew Housman said. “And for that four- or five-minute stretch, we had great intensity, especially on the defensive end. It’s just that we weren’t able to sustain that burst. As Harvard’s explosion of energy hit its crescendo, Cornell, too, fell back on its star player. But that’s where the trend ceased to continue.The reigning Ivy League player of the year, junior guard Louis Dale, finally ended Harvard?...
...challenges of telling stories in video games is that the entire medium is subject to technological upgrades on a regular basis. Mastering it requires surfing a learning curve that is steep and, so far, infinite. With the previous generation of hardware, for example, characters' faces were too flat to sustain real closeups, and there just wasn't enough horsepower to support a lot of Stoppardian banter. "We simply couldn't stream in much dialogue, 'cause it was so hard to stream the world in on PlayStation 2," Houser explains, "whereas now we can have the characters constantly talking...
...species of moderate Northeastern Republican. As the GOP's center of gravity moves to the right, the Democratic majority has fewer and fewer potential crossovers to choose from. That gives each woman enormous leverage in a Senate Republican caucus whose leaders cannot afford any defections if they are to sustain a filibuster. Both sides know that the math on any close vote is likely to come down to Snowe and Collins...
...Hard choices remain. Will Nkunda, for example, be extradited from Rwanda? Kabila has promised that Rwandan troops will be out of Congo by March, but every day that they stay - and the thrill of Nkunda's capture recedes - it becomes more difficult politically for him to sustain his bold initiative. None of this will be easy...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences are working to refine proposed budget cuts—a process concurrent with more over-arching cost-reduction measures being spearheaded by the administration. In an interview last month, FAS Dean Michael D. Smith said departments have submitted proposals detailing areas that could sustain cuts. The “vast majority” of departments have founds ways to trim 15 percent of their budgets in keeping with a recommendation Smith made in December, the Dean said. “Part of the issue here is we can’t stop the business...