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According to FAS Spokesman Jeff A. Neal, the administration is waiting on the completion of the winter break survey e-mailed to undergraduates by Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds in January before weighing in on any decisions regarding next year’s J-term...
...they say. With the Vancouver Olympics, which begin on Feb. 12, fast approaching, north-of-the-border expectations are at an all-time high. Canada has hosted the Olympics twice before - the 1976 Summer Games in Montreal and the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. In both cases, no Canadian athlete won a gold medal on home soil. That's right; even though Canada is very cold and was blessed with home-field advantage in 1988, the country couldn't win a single Winter Olympics gold. They didn't even medal in ice hockey, Canada's own game. (Watch a video...
...typewriter that he carried across Europe, writing all the time. On D-Day he was part of an infantry regiment that landed on the beach at Normandy. By August, Salinger's regiment had fought its way to Paris and from there pushed on to Germany. In the autumn and winter he would be involved in some of the most horrific campaigns of the war, including the Battle of Hürtgen Forest, a months-long slugfest in freezing, muddy, mine-infested woods...
Fastman argued that the chickens are of a carefully selected breed that does not make too much noise, and the smells had wafted from a pool of water that had been created for the ducks and removed at the start of winter...
...moved from Hawaii to Miami, site of this year's Super Bowl, and rescheduled for the Sunday before the championship to capitalize on the hype. But as game day approaches, the changes increasingly look like mistakes. Players lost the perk of a trip to Honolulu after a long winter in places like Green Bay and Buffalo and dropped out in droves. And because the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts are in the midst of prepping for the Super Bowl, their all-star-caliber players - 14 of them - won't be attending. (In order to collect their Pro Bowl...