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Since this act of uncommon generosity--a person who openly expresses love for Cleveland is as rare as a liberal who likes Dan Qualye--Clevelanders have embraced Kosar as the man destined to lead the Browns to the Super Bowl...
...number of blank ballots this year, however, is well within the range of past Cambridge state representative elections. When Graham ran unopposed in 1986, for example, more than 32 percent of the voters left their ballots blank. Even in contested elections, it is not uncommon for 10 to 15 percent of the ballots to be left blank...
...still harvesting the fruits of what they determined almost 40 years ago." So said a Nobel official in Stockholm last week of the two Americans who won the prize for medicine for their pioneering work in drug therapy. It was an uncommon break with tradition: the Nobel committee recognized researchers in the commercial drug industry. Winners Gertrude Elion, 70, and George Hitchings, 83, are both affiliated with Burroughs Wellcome in North Carolina, and Sir James Black, 64, is now at King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry...
Departmental offerings that meet the Core's goals, like "Jazz," are probably not uncommon, and the Core committee should be more willing to grant Core status to many interesting departmental offerings that otherwise would not attract non-concentrators...
...Rowing establishes a link with people that is very uncommon in sports and other arenas in life," Thompson notes...