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Then came your junior year, and suddenly there was no script. The world had shifted. It was the year of Obama. Who could have anticipated that? It was the year of entropy, with catastrophic floods and fires, an imminent flu pandemic, and the biggest meltdown of world financial systems since the Great Depression. Jobs you had counted on evaporated. Opportunities vanished. Phrases like “bailout” and “too big to fail” were suddenly being applied to companies you had hoped would someday recruit you. And the University was not immune. We didn?...
...went into it with the mentality that we most definitely could beat them,” senior goalkeeper Lauren Mann said. “They were playing well, we were playing well. It was an unfortunate way to end. They scored in the first couple minutes of the second half, but we kept fighting up until...
...first match in November [against Brown] were a big test for us,” co-captain Katherine O’Donnell said. “[Co-captain] Johanna [Snyder] and I and some of the other girls were injured, but we still won. Everyone showed what they could...
...that he was misguided in invoking faith as a solution to the crisis. We advocate treating the occurrence of abuse by priests foremost as a law-enforcement issue because we feel that no one, not even the clergy, should be above the law. We also believe that the Church could do more to handle the epidemic of pedophilic priests from a management perspective, decentralizing authority to local dioceses and providing instructional courses about how to report incidents of abuse...
...hotly contested race plagued by allegations of fraud, terming the decision premature. Abdullah’s concession to Karzai dispossessed the Afghan government of any democratic legitimacy, thus depriving the country of much-needed stability. The implication of this politically expedient maneuver, we concluded, was that the United States could not afford to factor in the chimerical prospect of a stable democracy in Afghanistan as it considers its policy toward the region...