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...guess is that it would be a distributive activity,” she said, “but there may be a nucleus of sorts in Allston...
...people forgot about that. I feel like Columbia and Yale are always tough games, but I don’t see any reason why we can’t win.”The parity around the league is not the only cause for optimism. Harvard has a strong nucleus returning. Four of the five starters from the end of the season are back. Losing last year’s captain and leading scorer Jim Goffredo ’07 will hurt, but Lin is ready to step into his spot. Harris and Housman are both All-Ivy caliber players...
...more than the Khieu sisters. Daughters of a judge and among the country's first female intellectuals, Ponnary and Thirith were sent to study in Paris in the 1950s where they met and later married two other Cambodian students - creating a foursome that went on to form the nucleus of one of the world's most brutal regimes. The elder Khieu sister, Ponnary, married Pol Pot, leader of the fanatical Khmer Rouge movement which fought its way to bloody victory in Cambodia in 1975 and then established a regime under which an estimated 1.7 million people died...
...poses as a well-bred aristocratic wife, Ms. Mak, and employs her acting abilities and womanly wiles to delicately tempt Mr. Yee. Taming the beast, however, becomes an increasingly perilous and poisonous endeavor. The character dynamics are evocative and rich in nuance. They comprise the film’s nucleus and are roughly microcosmic of the external political conflict. The first half of the movie underscores the students’ naïve confusion between histrionic ideals and a harsher reality, until a particularly bloody episode jars the troupe and shows that they have already committed themselves to the latter...
DEFINITION sy-brid em-bree-oh n. An entity in its early stages of development that consists of a human nucleus inserted into another species' egg that has been emptied of its original genetic material...