Word: weightness
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...first-rate manager with practical experience in government and a graduate of the school to boot." No one would deny that Burke is qualified for the job, but the selection of such a prominent (though moderate) conservative speaks to an effort to counter-balance the left-leaning weight of the academic dean, David Ellwood, a one-time Clinton appointee...
...dwindling band of zealous believers, Hiss was one of the first victims of anticommunist hysteria, an American Dreyfus. Yet the weight of historical evidence indicates that Hiss was what he steadfastly denied ever being: a member of the communist underground and a Soviet spy. What made his case so intriguing was that his profile seemed at odds with the stereotypical idea of a grubby turncoat. His patrician grace had somehow survived a family life streaked with tragedy. His father, a wholesale grocer, committed suicide when Alger was two; a sister, Mary, also killed herself. Yet Hiss's advancement in life...
...researchers studying aging--as well as for the rest of the human population, getting inexorably older and feeling none too happy about it--the rules have always been simple: organisms are born, they live a more or less prescribed number of years and they die. If you watch your weight, eat right and get plenty of exercise, you can perhaps negotiate the terms a bit, squeezing out a bit more time here and there. But tripling life-spans? Quadrupling life-spans? Eliminating the very idea of life-spans? Not an option...
Finally, the Crimson will incorporate several weight shifts in an attempt to balance its distribution and allow its freshmen to compete...
Indeed, Volpe's injury and nagging open slots at the heavier weight classes, particularly the 177-pound and heavyweight divisions, may impede Harvard's team successes this season...