Word: tearful
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...will likely have to be at its best to emerge from this weekend with a pair of victories, as Cornell and Columbia are both coming off home weekend sweeps over Princeton and Penn. Cornell (14-5, 6-0 Ivy), the preseason Ivy League favorite, has been on an absolute tear of late, currently riding an eight game winning streak and sitting alone at the top of league standings. The Big Red is paced by second-year standouts Ryan Wittman and Louis Dale. Wittman, the son of former NBA guard Randy Wittman, last year’s Ivy League Rookie...
...democracy activists. Protesters regularly gather in front of his empty residence in Islamabad to launch fresh demonstrations. Each time they are met with an increasingly violent police response. During a demonstration on Feb. 9, riot police added a water cannon to their usual barrage of batons and tear-gas shells, but the protesters were undaunted. "We are on the streets not for politics but for rule of law," said Naila Zahid, one of the protesters, her eyes red and streaming from the tear gas. "And we will remain on the streets until...
...Marines and two American embassies in Beirut in the 1980s, as well as being behind two bombings against Israeli and Jewish targets in Argentina. Whether he was responsible or not for all of this mayhem - there is no conclusive evidence he was - no one is going to shed a tear in this country, in Israel, or the West for his passing...
...particular, has so much else to offer its nondoms - a leading position in financial services, world-class culture, easy access to Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East - that most will stay and pay. But at a time when the economy is already showing signs of wear and tear, there's clearly a danger that the foreign rich will pack up and take their fat wallets with them. "We find these changes quite bizarre," says Andrew Tailby-Faulkes, a tax partner at Ernst & Young in London. "If we do have an exodus of wealthy people, that...
...flick kind of way, these two have just been waiting to find each other. Ever since New England established the potential for an undefeated season, each one of its games has taken on something a little something extra for everyone involved. As the Patriots started their season on a tear, winning games by two or three touchdowns with regularity, I realized that a loss, if it ever came, would hurt twice as badly. It’s important to remember that this team is not simply a winning machine, that it’s human. Not human because?...