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...fight over where to build dorms is going to be a real tug-of-war, but I think that when BC comes to the table, they come with more compassion,” he said. “BC puts all their heart and soul into the dialogue...
...Harvard men’s lacrosse team fought a hard tug-of-war game against No. 14 Brown but came up on the losing end of an 8-7 Bears victory, despite a four-goal night by freshman attacker Dean Gibbons—a career high.“In the last three games, I’ve been really impressed with the amount of confidence [Gibbons has] been having. Every time he gets the ball he believes he’s going to score,” co-captain Nick La Fiura said.Under the lights in Providence, the Crimson...
...share majority rule between the Upper and Lower houses. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), after holding the reins of the Diet for more than five decades, lost the Upper House to the DPJ during last summer's elections. As a result, the last eight months have been a political tug-of-war that has resulted in many disputes. Playing a central role is Fukuda, who has watched his approval ratings plummet in the past few weeks, with some polls showing as low as 24%. (By contrast, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's approval rating hovered around 30% when he stepped...
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...fissures from which the plumes erupt. "Enceladus' orbit around Saturn is eccentric," Mitchell says. It's just enough off of circular that the effect of gravity on the moon is different from one point to another, and different from the planet's other moons. "That difference in the tug would be enough to cause the body to distort differently as it goes around Saturn." The friction created when sides of the tiger stripes are pulled apart or pushed together at different points during orbit may be creating the heat that ultimately causes the eruptions...