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...scorer but also as a rebounder and defender," Delaney-Smith said. "She's a veteran. To lose a player like Laela, who has an enormous amount of confidence, has a huge effect besides the points. She adds something else to this team. It's going to make things tougher, but we're still in the race; we're still in the hunt...
Bailey isn't alone in his suspicions that something more than simple market forces is at play. Many farmers have pointed the finger at their Canadian brethren for flooding the market with swine, and are urging tougher import restrictions. Meanwhile, some critics believe that a few dominant corporate hog processors, like IBP or Smithfield, have unfairly profited from the farmers' misfortunes. "This isn't a matter of outmoded hog producers falling victim to the invisible hand of the market," says Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa. "Pork in the grocery store costs the same now as six months ago. An anticompetitive...
...confidence in the probity of the White House," says one. "There was a long experience with its not being forthcoming and truthful." Starr claims the experience didn't change him, but the evidence contradicts him, and so do many of his friends and allies. They say he became tougher, more aggressive, more willing to assume the worst about Clinton and his people. "The impact was almost unavoidable," says a Starr associate. "You're less likely to...give people the benefit of the doubt." Starr became less deferential, summoning Hillary Clinton to the grand jury in 1996 rather than questioning...
...know or see that [St. Peter's] could shoot [as well as they did] from the perimeter," said Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith. "Instead of getting tougher and being stronger, everyone looked like they were shocked and gave up and stopped playing...
...portable, but many still apply only to public colleges within the taxpayer's state. What if Junior gets accepted to Harvard? You can get your contributions back. But some states refund only principal, beating you out of years' worth of investment gains. And state prepaid plans make it tougher to get student aid because the money is held in the student's name. With savings plans the money is in a parent's name, where it counts less heavily in student-aid formulas--and you can set aside as much as $100,000 for expenses at any U.S. college...