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...defense in any of those games,” Sullivan said. “Our defense in league play is something we have to work on significantly. We have got to get our defense up to speed.” Dartmouth, on the other hand, has been on an upward swing since its 0-6 start, winning five of six since then as many of its key players returned to health. The key recovery for the Big Green has been that of senior guard Leon Pattman. In the six games after his return, Pattman has averaged 17 points per game...
...went out and talked to interested applicants,” Fitzsimmons said. The number of Mexican American early admits increased to 22 from 14 last year and the number of non-Mexican Hispanic early admits increased to 36 from 30 last year, according to Fitzsimmons. Finally, he said the upward trend in foreign nationals and students eligible for the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative continued for this year. While Harvard has experienced positive returns in its final year of single-choice early admissions, Fitzsimmons said he is “very excited” for next year’s round...
...some human sacrifice, there is no evidence that they practiced it on the industrial scale depicted in the movie For that, as the Guggenheim exhibit suggested, one would have to look 300 miles west to the Aztecs, who had made it their religious centerpiece. Hernan Cortes (who probably rounded upward, since he conquered them), claimed the Aztecs dispatched between three and four thousand souls a year that way. Why Gibson decided to turn the Mayans into Aztecs is anyone's guess...
...which only a few years ago was in deep trouble, reported a 22.6% increase in net income, while Kohl's racked up a 45% gain. "It's the sweet spot in the market," says Marshal Cohen, a retail-industry analyst for the NPD Group. "The lower end is reaching upward...
...with unvarnished hope - have an unvarying theme: the bookseller's struggle against the fates for a better life, and a hesitant supplication to purchase. Sometimes, there's a toddler asleep atop the cart, his or her head pillowed perhaps on a copy of Angkor - Cambodia's Wondrous Khmer Temples. Upward of a million visitors a year - backpackers, pensioners, Tomb Raider aficionados, newly flush Eastern Europeans and large groups of Buddhists from Japan and Korea - come to gawp at Angkor Wat. Looming, enduring and vast, it is just one of a host of exquisite temples in the area...