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...started to swell and it was really bother him,” Harvard Coach John Kerr said...
...leader and politician in Quetta. "In other words, to catch Osama bin Laden, you don't have to burn all Afghanistan." Despite their grievances against the Taliban's brutish rule, Pashtuns would close ranks and rally to their fellow tribesmen against the U.S. In all likelihood, their forces would swell with zealots crossing over from Pakistan's madrasahs, or Koranic schools...
...This crisis has been George W. Bush?s moment, Colin Powell?s moment, even Donald Rumsfeld?s moment. But while his cabinet colleagues and his boss swell in stature, O?Neill has only gotten smaller in relation to his increased importance - to the point of actually sharing the crisis-management spotlight with someone no longer on the government payroll...
According to sources in the Athletic Department, the bubbling and cracking that has marred the playing surfaces of the courts is potentially due to faulty construction methods. Underneath the hardcourt surface lies a layer of polymer which, if installed incorrectly, will cause the court to swell with temperature shifts or in cases of heavy precipitation...
...TIME recognizes four institutions with highly effective programs to help first-year students make a successful transition into college life. Helping new students survive has, in our judgment, become an essential responsibility of every college. That task takes on new urgency this year, as the children of baby boomers swell the freshman classes of many universities to record numbers in a dorm-bursting wave that won't peak until the end of the decade...